The applet is dead….long live the applet

A slightly confusing (and not quite accurate) post title, but at the 2007 JavaOne Conference a week ago, Sun have announced JavaFX - a scripting language designed to work across the spectrum of mobile, web, tv and desktop apps. Their demos all run off JavaWebStart, hence the post title. Presumably the announcement has been due [...]

Ruby on Rails - BCS lecture 26th April 07 - Rubbish!

I went to the BCS lecture this month, this time on Ruby on Rails. Now I’m no Ruby programmer or a regular presenter, but have been to a fair few Ruby presentations (aimed also at technical users) and thought that this one was pretty awful - I wouldn’t normally blog this, but I had to [...]

Implementing Lean Software Development @ Oxtremists

Had a thoroughly interesting book group session at the Oxtremists discussing various aspects of lean software development from the book Implementing Lean Software Development, while enjoying a pint or two in the Lamb and Flag, Oxford.

We were lucky enought to have the authors, Mary and Tom Poppendieck at the meeting, who happened to be visiting [...]

When Done means Done - Acceptance Testing using Behaviour Driven Development

Acceptance testing is all well and good, but how do you make sure that what you are testing actually matches your customer requirements, and that when you discuss requirements, both you and your customer are a) talking about the same thing b) not missing anything critical out?