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Archive for January, 2008

segregating environment variables

Posted in General, tagged , , , , , , , on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Whenever you work with different version of a product at a single time, you run into overriding environment variables.
lets take Java SDK as example, you may have the JAVA_HOME pointed to JDK1.5 for the project you work on production deployment. At the same time you may also need to have JAVA_HOME pointed to JDK6 for your fun [...]

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listening on 0.0.0.0

Posted in General, Software Development, tagged , , , , , , , on January 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »

After you start your Tomacat/Apache HTTPD Server:
just go to the command line and use netstat -an command to check the network statistics. You might have noticed
foobar:~ nrs$ netstat -an | grep LISTEN
tcp46 0 0 *.8080 [...]

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Continuous testing w/Ant

Posted in Software Development, tagged , , , , , , on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

UPDATED – It Works
As we write code, a continuous feedback will help us know how we are progressing. And what code are we breaking as we add functionality. A way to run unit tests, as we code and save java files will be great!
I know there was a plugin for Eclipse, Continuous Testing from MIT. [...]

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Testing Naturally, and Agile

Posted in Software Development, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Behaviour-Driven Development is what you are already doing, if you are doing Test-Driven Development properly…
Test-Driven Development is commonly used everywhere, however the term ‘test’ makes people to think it as something they do extra to their coding activity. The same makes it hard to convince managers about the value of the unit-testing. Also the term [...]

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Mac OS X automation in ruby

Posted in General, software, tagged , , , , , on January 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Mac OS X ships with a tool called Automator, using automator you can create scripts to perform a task. Its kinda macro recording tool. Those who are most used to mac os x, can also write scripts which will perform any task they want. These scripts are called as applescript. Applescript has a friendly syntax [...]

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