http://www.turnleafdesign.com Ramblings of a junior developer Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:56:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week I published an article, An Intro into Test Driven Development with Junit4, which got somewhat mixed reviews. One particular commenter on reddit suggested I didn't understand that unit tests shouldn't talk to its data source. I decided to do some investigating into his claims, you can check out ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/mocking-jdbc-connections-with-mockrunner Last week I published an article on test driven development. One person who read my article (briefly) suggested I did not know that unit tests shouldn't talk to their data source. I plan on covering how to mock JDBC connections later this week, however I wanted to do some research ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/ramblings-should-unit-tests-talk-to-a-data-source http://www.developerart.com – A new blog like my own. While not a whole lot yet, the content that is on his site is of high quality. Kind of a smallish link dump I know. I plan on getting some new articles posted this week, namely an update to my TDD article I ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/link-dump-113 Please read the technical guide before starting this tutorial. This article will mark the first of a long-term series covering professional software development. For the lowdown on this project check out this article. Be sure to give me your feedback as it will be vital in helping me develop better tutorials ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/an-intro-into-test-driven-development-with-junit4 A couple of weeks ago I posted about my ideas for the future of this site. Well today I start making good on those lofty promises. I will be posting my first tutorial, which will cover test driven development, shortly. Before I do that I want to give a bit ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/the-start-of-a-long-journey In my recent article, 8 signs your code sucks, one of my signs of bad code is: “You need to use comments to explain the code.” I have since taken a lot of flak for suggesting this and I want to clarify my point and why I am not backing ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/comments-are-a-sign-of-bad-code-and-i-am-not-sorry-for-saying-it My blog passed a major milestone today, I finally eclipsed 1,000 visitors in a single day! I want to say thanks to everybody who has visited this site and I hope you find it useful. I have a lot of big ideas for the future so be sure to check ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/thanks-for-the-hits As a wide eyed junior developer when I first began working on large projects I simply accepted that it is difficult to fix bugs or find where an action is being executed. If only I knew then what I know now, I would had saved myself hours of frustration. The ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/8-signs-your-code-sucks Integrated development environments make developing application fair easier. They highlight syntax, let you know if you have a compilation error, and allow you to step through your code among so many other things. Like all IDEs Eclipse has a bunch of little shortcuts and tools that can make your life ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/12-tips-to-make-you-more-productive-using-eclipse In the third and final part to my SVN primer I will finish up with my day to day tasks and I will go over how to add SVN properties to your project. The first two parts can be found here: 1,  2. More Terminology: BASE – Refers to the most recent ... http://www.turnleafdesign.com/taming-of-the-subversion-a-svn-primer-part-3