by Bob McCune on January 21, 2008
I’d like to say thanks to everyone who attended my Spring 2.5 presentation at last week’s TCJUG meeting. We had another good turnout, which is always nice to see. Jeff Jensen at Intertech is always a great host and I had a fun time presenting. I hope the info was useful to you. I’ve attached [...]
by Bob McCune on March 23, 2007
I’d like to say thanks to everyone who attended my JPA presentation at last night’s TCJUG meeting. It was a full house and there was a lot of good conversation during and after the presentation. As always, Jeff Jensen at Intertech is a great host and I had a fun time. I hope the info [...]
by Bob McCune on December 9, 2006
I was recently compiling a list of Test-driven Development (TDD) “Best Practices” for my client project’s wiki site and thought this would probably be useful to the community at large. I’ve been an avid practitioner and proponent of test-driven development for a few years now and have found it to be one of the most [...]
by Bob McCune on November 22, 2006
I recently came across a new Eclipse plugin you should definitely check out if you’re doing test-driven development (TDD). It’s called EclEmma and is based on Emma, the open source code coverage tool. Code coverage reporting tools like Emma or Cobertura are a must if you are doing TDD, but the one downside these tools [...]
by Bob McCune on November 11, 2006
I just finished giving a presentation on Hibernate 3.2 at the first Twin Cities Code Camp event in Edina, MN. You can grab a copy of the presentation and source code examples below. As I was attempting to get set up I realized I had forgotten to bring my DVI to VGA adapter for my [...]
by Bob McCune on November 11, 2006
The long awaited update to Hibernate in Action has been released! HiA was the definitive guide on all things Hibernate, but unfortunately was written for version 2.x. The new version has been updated for version 3.x and additionally covers using Hibernate as the persistence provider for JPA and EJB3. I’ve been reading the preview release [...]