General Blather

One frequent hole in Test Driven Development (or any other comprehensive attempt to test) in Java web applications is the presentation layer. Especially when using an MVC pattern to separate the work from the display, the trend is to do that testing… more »

Started out for work today, thinking it was a little brisk for a motorcycle ride. I'm trying to keep family flexibility up (we only have one four-wheel vehicle), as well as have some (arguably) eco-friendlier emissions and fun while commuting. Didn't… more »

Starting out for work today, I noticed the mileage on the Valkyrie was about to round to the next hundred. Since there's no fuel gauge on the bike, I just fill-up when an even 100 miles is passed. It's easy to see and remember. The bike's got almost 6… more »

Of course, it is coming to pass that nothing but bad news is coming out of the bail-out. more »

I've long been thinking of a way to work in a distributed manner, sharing development projects on new machines, possibly on a whim. I, as have many others, have been tossing around the idea of a web-based system. Looks like the folk at Mozilla have put… more »

My honking huge monitor has a small glitch in that it will occasionally not bring up a display when switching between computers on the KVM. more »