Extreme Programming (XP)

Book Review (Part 1) – Better, Faster, Lighter Java

Well if the weight of the book has anything to do with it, it’s the lightest Java book I’ve got. Better, Faster, Lighter Java, which I got from Amazon, has been a quick read.

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The Java Spring Framework

I’ve been reading Spring in Action as part of reskilling in Spring Framework and Hibernate. The rationale of this was, I wanted a better testing capacity of my web apps, and after some review of a number of options and input from other colleagues I went down the Spring path.

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XP Group in Brisbane

Brisbane has another XP Group. Just found out about it. Info can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/Brisbane-XP . I’ve been involved in some part in 2 previous groups in Brisbane. I’m thinking about some ideas myself, I’ve got all the XP skills, however I’m now skilling up in Spring (a full-stack Java/J2EE application framework) and Hibernate (a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java).

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JUnit 4.0 is getting nearer

For those Agile developers out there, JUnit requires no explaination. I’ve got CVS details and some examples in my JUnit 4.0 Tutorial.

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