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Monthly Archives: July 2005
Oh Ubuntu, why must your Java VM be so terrible?
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Ubuntu has finally let me down. Breezy has, for some time now, had
eclipse in available, using gcj (a gcc frontend that compiles java
source to native code). Tonight, I figured I’d install eclipse at
home, and play around with writing plugins. For added fun, I might
grab a copy of Sun’s java VM, and do some benchmarking. [...]
The relevant ‘Joel on Software’ article of the fortnight
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don’t Have Testers
Computation of the relevancy score of this article is left as an
excercise for the reader.
Maven: buy the razor, get the blades for free
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Build tools are tricky things. Make and Ant lack key features for
larger projects, like dependency resolution. The GNU autotools add
more power to make, at the cost of extreme complexity.
Project structure (e.g. directory layout) . Do you leave all your
source files in the root directory, or create sub-directories? How do
you divide the files into the directories? [...]
Autonomic Pilot
Thursday, July 7, 2005
I’ve become the new build monster master at work. This means
that I have to keep the nightly builds running, and watch for anything strange
happening during the unit and functional tests. Should anything peculiar
happen, I’ve got to either fix it myself, or find someone who can.
I will spare you my personal opinion on the effectiveness [...]