Archive for September, 2011
Project CoPilot: Season 1, Episode 2
Posted by gamlerhart in Media Zap Oh Snap on September 30, 2011
The German Blog Abwegig had the idea to do regular ratings of different TV series. In each round the first three episodes of three TV series are reviewed. Since I was looking for some new series I’ve taken a look at the current round. In the suggested series are Being Erica (IMDb, Wikipedia), The Shadow [...]
Read complete postApproval Testing
Posted by gamlerhart in .NET, java on September 22, 2011
Approval Testing is one of my newest discoveries. It is amazingly helpful and I wonder why it’s not more known and used. Image that you have a complex functionality which you want to test. For example a complex report or the rendering of a picture. Here regular unit testing just doesn’t help you that much. [...]
Read complete postVisualVM
Posted by gamlerhart in java, tools on September 15, 2011
VisualVM is an awesome tool! It is one of the best tools shipped with the JDK. I’m always astonished when people do know nothing about it. Here’s a short tour through VisualVM. Where is it? VisualVM is in the bin directory of your JDK installation. For example on my windows machine it’s here ‘C:\Program Files [...]
Read complete postRavenDB: Bundles, Cascade Deletion, Document Versioning
Posted by gamlerhart in .NET, RavenDB on September 7, 2011
Today we take a look at how we can install additional functionality to RavenDB with bundles. Then we take a brief look at the cascading delete and versioning bundles. Bundles / Plugins The default RavenDB installation only includes basic features. More advanced functionality can be installed with bundles, like versioning of documents, expiration of documents, [...]
Read complete postUpdates for db4o LINQPad Driver
Posted by gamlerhart in .NET, db4o on September 2, 2011
I’ve updated my LINQPad driver for db4o (Here’s an feature-overview). Besides tons of little bugfixes there are also two major scenarios which are now supported: Read Support for Enums supported in for an enum type. db4o only stores the actual number of enum values. Previously the driver just crashed when it encountered an enum. Now [...]
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