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Mike Cannon-Brookes on Java, J2EE, OSX, Open Source, Australia, Atlassian, Bug Tracking, JIRA and more...

Tuesday, 25 June 2002

Top 10 web games: Warning - much time could disappear here. 3:15:38 PM  comment []      ABSOLUT VODKA : Very cool adver-site. 12:34:54 PM  comment []      CollabNet gives developers a collaborative voice: Anyone know of any sites actually running SourceCast 2.0? 10:31:38 AM  comment []      Without a net. I really like this idea of using unit tests as a safety net for development, so I guess I need to learn more about JUnit and the Extreme Programming ideas behind it. Up until now, Roller development was done without a net. [Blogging Roller] Yep - JIRA is the first appliction we've built that has a full set of unit tests and I can't tell you how many times they've saved us. For example just yesterday I decided to update the OFBiz Entity Engine jar from CVS. Normally this would be a moment filled with trepidation - things might break, even badly - but will I know? Well you see having tests is great! I ran the testsuite (over 100 tests) and confirmed it - things broke, badly . But now all I need to do is fix the tests one by one (hopefully in large numbers) until all run fine again - then I know I'm done with the upgrade. IMHO XP has few good ideas - which have different degrees of practicality to implement in different circumstances. However unit testing and JUnit are one of those ideas that is always practical. I can't tell you how much better a few Open Source projects I know would be if they had a full test suite 10:28:49 AM  comment []      Doc talked about two interesting things today - Shazam and Mark Cuban. This great quote applies ironically to both: I agree. But the raw technology is a blast, even if the marketing is ballast. 10:24:04 AM  comment []      Red Hat hears desktop Linux calling: Red Hat CEO: "We have two competitors. One's in Mountain View (Calif., where Sun has offices) and the other is in Redmond," Szulik said. "The road to Redmond is through Mountain View." 10:18:49 AM  comment []      CQHost is still down.  They will not respond to trouble tickets or requests for status. [Blogging Roller] I don't care how cheap they are - I don't see why David is staying with an ISP that seems to be so truly crap. Ditch 'em. 10:16:16 AM  comment []