May 27, 2005 / About Fitnesse

0 comments Nice post with real feedback about Fitnesse. And also good links on some testing frameworks at the end. Selenium looks great. You may describe actions workflow and assertions in HTML tables (as Fitnesse do as well) and run tests right from browser. I will give it a try.

posted by Michael Dubakov @ 7:56 AM

May 26, 2005 / Java and .NET Worlds Getting Closer

1 comments The trend is very clear: two platforms becoming very similar.

• Cool Java tools ported into .NET, including Hibernate, Spring, CruiseControl and so on
• Mono project matures and provides a way to run .NET applications on Linux
• Java Server Faces is very similar to ASP.NET model (and even ViewState feature has been introduced on TheServerSide recently)
• Java 1.5 is closer to C# (Generics, Enums and so on)
• Moreover, recently a tool appeared that allows to deploy .NET application on Tomcat, for example
• ReSharper brings many cool features from IDEA to VS.NET and it is easier to migrate from one development environment to another.

What is the difference? Maybe soon Java developer will be able to write good .NET app after a weekly training. And .NET developer will hit a button and get 10 builds: one for .NET on Windows, second for .NET on Linux, third for WebSphere on AIX, fourth for Tomcat and so on. We'll see.

posted by Michael Dubakov @ 3:18 AM

May 19, 2005 / Commenting Code

0 comments Fine article about good and bad comments in the code Write Sweet-Smelling Comments. Some examples when comments are helpful: - Comment at the top of the class about class purpose - Commenting assumptions, limitations and decisions - ToDo and policy description - Description of algorithm

posted by Michael Dubakov @ 7:45 AM

May 16, 2005 / Hiring and Startup

0 comments Extremely useful article about nature of startups and hiring. Why big companies buy startups? Where are the benefits? Paul Graham thinks that this is one of the best way to do hiring and inject a fresh blood into the company. "The central problem in big companies, and the main reason they're so much less productive than small companies, is the difficulty of valuing each person's work. Buying larval startups solves that problem for them: the acquirer doesn't pay till the developers have proven themselves." "Buying startups also solves another problem afflicting big companies: they can't do product development. Big companies are good at extracting the value from existing products, but bad at creating new ones."

posted by Michael Dubakov @ 4:27 AM

May 4, 2005 / Functional Requirements Mutations

0 comments This funny picture demonstrates functional requirements mutations. It seems that project has heavy development process and customer far away from development team.

posted by Michael Dubakov @ 8:03 AM