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Clover and Wikitree
Good news this week. Our purchase of Clover was approved and we will have our license keys in a matter of days. As of tomorrow it is going into our build and Cobertura is getting ripped out. You may recall I previously wrote about my issues with Cobertura. One problem was the latest version at…
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JHipster webinar
I saw this come across the Spring blog this week. They are going to be doing a webinar for JHipster. As I mentioned in a previous post I am very interested in JHipster as it combines 2 things I am interested in learning Spring Boot and Angular. If you are interested in checking it out…
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Spam Comments
My blog must be getting noticed by the bots. When I first started writing I had more posts than attempted spam comments. Then for a while I was at parity. I would write something new and I would see another spamy comment in the quarantine area. Now they are starting to kick into overdrive and…
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Iron-Clad Java
I am currently reading Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications by Jim Manico and August Detlefsen. This book basically takes you from zero to doing a decent job of locking down your webapp. It starts with security basics and then covers authentication and session management, and then access control, followed by Cross-Site Scripting Defense, then…
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JHipster
I was reading the Spring Blog the other day and I came across this story. I was intrigued because I found the name funny so I read the post and watched the embedded youtube video and was completely blown away. Take all the excitement I had for Spring Boot after SpringOne and multiply it by…
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Project Estimation
The thing I dislike most in software development is when they ask me to estimate how long a given project will take. I am about to start a new project so of course the first thing that is asked for is to do some research and try to figure out what the high level tasks…
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Getting crushed by SonarQube
I have been upgrading our Sonar server from 4.5 to 4.5.2 and restructuring our project. I initially was planning on upgrading to SonarQube 5.0, but the upgrade process can’t seem to handle our database. After I upgraded to 4.5.2, I was restructuring. Initially we had each of our libraries setup as a separate project at…
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Code Coverage
In my current position one of the metrics we track is code coverage for our unit tests. When I started at the company we were using JUnit with Mockito and JaCoCo. This was a pretty good setup we got good coverage reports and Mockito makes the testing writing much easier. One of the limitations of…
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Calling all Dr Who fans
For all the other Dr Who fans that might come across this I am taking a Massively Open Online Course about the show that starts in a week. If you are interesting in the show you should join me. You can sign up here. A link to the Facebook page is here.
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Themes for 2015
As my Christmas vacation draws to a close I am starting to think of themes for 2015. Why themes and not goals or resolutions? Well I think resolutions are sort of setting yourself up for failure and goals are very rigid so I am going with more general themes. Obviously the first theme I am…