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  • How to become a good team player?

    - by Nick
    I've been programming (obsessively) since I was 12. I am fairly knowledgeable across the spectrum of languages out there, from assembly, to C++, to Javascript, to Haskell, Lisp, and Qi. But all of my projects have been by myself. I got my degree in chemical engineering, not CS or computer engineering, but for the first time this fall I'll be working on a large programming project with other people, and I have no clue how to prepare. I've been using Windows all of my life, but this project is going to be very unix-y, so I purchased a Mac recently in the hopes of familiarizing myself with the environment. I was fortunate to participate in a hackathon with some friends this past year -- both CS majors -- and excitingly enough, we won. But I realized as I worked with them that their workflow was very different from mine. They used Git for version control. I had never used it at the time, but I've since learned all that I can about it. They also used a lot of frameworks and libraries. I had to learn what Rails was pretty much overnight for the hackathon (on the other hand, they didn't know what lexical scoping or closures were). All of our code worked well, but they didn't understand mine, and I didn't understand theirs. I hear references to things that real programmers do on a daily basis -- unit testing, code reviews, but I only have the vaguest sense of what these are. I normally don't have many bugs in my little projects, so I have never needed a bug tracking system or tests for them. And the last thing is that it takes me a long time to understand other people's code. Variable naming conventions (that vary with each new language) are difficult (__mzkwpSomRidicAbbrev), and I find the loose coupling difficult. That's not to say I don't loosely couple things -- I think I'm quite good at it for my own work, but when I download something like the Linux kernel or the Chromium source code to look at it, I spend hours trying to figure out how all of these oddly named directories and files connect. It's a programming sin to reinvent the wheel, but I often find it's just quicker to write up the functionality myself than to spend hours dissecting some library. Obviously, people who do this for a living don't have these problems, and I'll need to get to that point myself. Question: What are some steps that I can take to begin "integrating" with everyone else? Thanks!

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  • Getting Started Plugging into the "Find in Projects" Dialog

    - by Geertjan
    In case you missed it amidst all the code in yesterday's blog entry, the "Find in Projects" dialog is now pluggable. I think that's really cool. The code yesterday gives you a complete example, but let's break it down a bit and deconstruct down to a very simple hello world scenario. We'll end up with as many extra tabs in the "Find in Projects" dialog as we need, for example, three in this case:  And clicking on any of those extra tabs will, in this simple example, simply show us this: Once we have that, we'll be able to continue adding small bits of code over the next few blog entries until we have something more useful. So, in this blog entry, you'll literally be able to display "Hello World" within a new tab in the "Find in Projects" dialog: import javax.swing.JComponent; import javax.swing.JLabel; import org.netbeans.spi.search.provider.SearchComposition; import org.netbeans.spi.search.provider.SearchProvider; import org.netbeans.spi.search.provider.SearchProvider.Presenter; import org.openide.NotificationLineSupport; import org.openide.util.lookup.ServiceProvider; @ServiceProvider(service = SearchProvider.class) public class ExampleSearchProvider1 extends SearchProvider { @Override public Presenter createPresenter(boolean replaceMode) { return new ExampleSearchPresenter(this); } @Override public boolean isReplaceSupported() { return false; } @Override public boolean isEnabled() { return true; } @Override public String getTitle() { return "Demo Extension 1"; } public class ExampleSearchPresenter extends SearchProvider.Presenter { private ExampleSearchPresenter(ExampleSearchProvider1 sp) { super(sp, true); } @Override public JComponent getForm() { return new JLabel("Hello World"); } @Override public SearchComposition composeSearch() { return null; } @Override public boolean isUsable(NotificationLineSupport nls) { return true; } } } That's it, not much code, works fine in NetBeans IDE 7.2 Beta, and is easier to digest than the big chunk from yesterday. If you make three classes like the above in a NetBeans module, and you install it, you'll have three new tabs in the "Find in Projects" dialog. The only required dependencies are Dialogs API, Lookup API, and Search in Projects API. Read the javadoc linked above and then in next blog entries we'll continue to build out something like the sample you saw in yesterday's blog entry.

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  • Naming your unit tests

    - by kerry
    When you create a test for your class, what kind of naming convention do you use for the tests? How thorough are your tests? I have lately switched from the conventional camel case test names to lower case letters with underscores. I have found this increases the readability and causes me to write better tests. A simple utility class: public class ArrayUtils { public static T[] gimmeASlice(T[] anArray, Integer start, Integer end) { // implementation (feeling lazy today) } } I have seen some people who would write a test like this: public class ArrayUtilsTest { @Test public void testGimmeASliceMethod() { // do some tests } } A more thorough and readable test would be: public class ArrayUtilsTest { @Test public void gimmeASlice_returns_appropriate_slice() { // ... } @Test public void gimmeASlice_throws_NullPointerException_when_passed_null() { // ... } @Test public void gimmeASlice_returns_end_of_array_when_slice_is_partly_out_of_bounds() { // ... } @Test public void gimmeASlice_returns_empty_array_when_slice_is_completely_out_of_bounds() { // ... } } Looking at this test, you have no doubt what the method is supposed to do. And, when one fails, you will know exactly what the issue is.

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  • Geo for Good Summit Highlights

    Geo for Good Summit Highlights The last week of September, Google hosted the Geo for Good User Summit, for nonprofit mapping and technology specialists to update the nonprofit community about new and special features of Google's mapping products. In this week's Maps Developers Live event, Mano Marks from Maps Developer Relations and Raleigh Seamster, Program Manager with the Google Earth Outreach team will talk about the highlights of the Summit and show off some great examples of people using Maps to help the world. From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:00 More in Education

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  • GDD-BR 2010 [1F] Flexible Android Applications

    GDD-BR 2010 [1F] Flexible Android Applications Speaker: Fred Chung Track: Android Time slot: F[15:30 - 16:15] Room: 1 Level: 201 Android provides facilities to make flexible applications that work well for everyone on any piece of hardware running Android. This session will cover localization and internationalization, as well as how to write an app that can detect and adapt to the hardware and software resources available to it. From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 10 0 ratings Time: 37:47 More in Science & Technology

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  • Google I/O 2012 - Writing Polished Apps that have Deep Integration into the Google Drive UI

    Google I/O 2012 - Writing Polished Apps that have Deep Integration into the Google Drive UI Mike Procopio, Steve Bazyl We'll go through how to implement complete Drive apps. This is not an introduction to Drive apps, but rather how to build your product into Google Drive, and ensure that the experience is seamless for a user. We will also discuss how to effectively distribute your app in the Chrome Web Store. The example app built in this talk will demonstrate an example use case, but otherwise be production-ready. For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to developers.google.com From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 829 5 ratings Time: 50:59 More in Science & Technology

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  • Google I/O 2012 - Data Driven Storytelling

    Google I/O 2012 - Data Driven Storytelling Michael Fink, Yinnon Haviv, Dani Bacon From a single chart to elaborate data driven storytelling, Google Chart Tools now provides a crisp and accessible experience based on our new HTML5 gallery. Come and learn how you can use animations, annotations and other visual semantics and to take user-interaction with rich data, to the next level. For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to developers.google.com From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 563 10 ratings Time: 53:05 More in Science & Technology

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