http://javapulse.net a finger on the pulse of the freelance Java™ market in the Netherlands Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:29:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the most entertaining talks I went to was the Be smart! by Ivar Jacobson. Although the concepts that he presented were definitely not new, he found a very clear and entertaining way to present them. A RUP guy, he told it how it is - about what I ... http://javapulse.net/2008/12/24/smart-agile-by-ivar-jacobson/ At Devoxx 2008 I got to hear about new stuff and meet new people - everything I expected from the biggest independent Java conference in the world. From what I hear, it is a conference with more stuff and less fluff - even said by Sun employees in comparison with ... http://javapulse.net/2008/12/23/devoxx-2008-highlights/ The best explanation of Scrum and Prince2 that I've read is by Scotty Wakefield: Scrum and Prince2: working together? http://javapulse.net/2008/12/16/scrum-and-prince2/ Continuous integration is an important component of agile development. It allows teams to work together and catch integration bugs early by continuously integrating into the central code base. For more info on continuous integration, read it from Martin Fowler: Continuous Integration by Martin Fowler [poll=3] http://javapulse.net/2008/12/02/what-continuous-integration-software-do-you-use/ At my work now, there is a wave of agile revolution going on. Some people (including myself) are really excited about this. I've worked with XP and really enjoy the productivity that comes with teamwork, continuous integration, etc. I gave the following presentation at work and would like to share it ... http://javapulse.net/2008/10/08/introduction-to-scrum/ Finally, after my holidays and a week of work, I get around to writing down my impressions from the AOP course from SpringSource. In this course, we gained experience using Spring AOP and AspectJ, and learned the reason behind the choices to be made when adopting AOP. Furthermore, we learned ... http://javapulse.net/2008/10/05/core-aop-part-i-introduction-to-aop/ I finished adding test coverage reports to the nightly build a couple of weeks ago, but only got around to write about it now. This post describes the details of my research into both EMMA and Cobertura. In the end, I went with EMMA mainly because of the server support. Summary EMMACobertura Dump ... http://javapulse.net/2008/09/02/coverage-emma-cobertura-maven/ Last week, I attended the SpringOne conference in Antwerp. Rod Johnson started the keynote by pointing out that the number of jobs for "spring application" surpassed that for "ejb" for the first time in December 2007 according to indeed.com. On this website, you can compare job trends for any number ... http://javapulse.net/2008/06/15/latest-in-spring-from-springone-spring-application-platform/ List of JavaTest Tools http://javapulse.net/2008/05/29/java-test-tools/ Last week, I set up automated functional testing for the test team using Selenium. So far, I'm thoroughly impressed with it. Selenium comes in several version: IDE, core, remote-control, grid. First, Selenium IDE is used to create tests and run them during test development. It comes as a Firefox plugin, which means ... http://javapulse.net/2008/05/27/selenium-automated-functional-web-testing/