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Daily del.icio.us for May 8th through May 12th
- Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - Am I being “age-ist”? Probably. But the world is a pretty complicated place right now and I’m thinking that it’s not such a great time to elect our oldest President ever. So sue me.
- If we hired like we vote - If we hired like we vote
- Hillary Clinton’s suicidal gamble with race poison | Andrew Sullivan - Times Online - But in that venture the Clintons are destroying themselves and their legacy and their capacity to bridge the very gaps they now must widen to stay in the race. It is a Clinton tragedy – and one that most Americans seem slowly, cautiously but palpably de
- InfoQ: Mocking Web Services - A new tutorial by Upul Godage describes how to use Apache Synapse to mock web services for development and testing. Apache Synapse is a simple, lightweight, high-performance enterprise service bus (ESB). Apache Synapse can be used to filter, transform, ro
- Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: Death by Scheduling - The moral of the story is that if perception is reality, then the best way to manage perception is to make up stuff that you can honestly remember.
- InfoQ: The State of Enterprise Architecture - As organizations continue to grow their IT investments (bought, borrowed, or built) and concepts like Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) become more common, the role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become more co
- Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet - GigaOM - So all you agile programmers working on Ruby-on-Rails, Python and AJAX, pay attention: If you want more people to think your application loads faster than Google, learn about your host. It’s called the Internet
- John Ferguson Smart's Blog: JavaOne 2008 - FindBugs is a great little tool, and it just keeps getting better! - FingBugs uses more sophisticated analysis techniques than tools like PMD and Checkstyle, working at the bytecode level rather than with the source code, and is more focused on finding the most high priority and potentially dangerous issues.
- Pictures from JavaOne 2008 - Arun Gupta's Weblog - Take 11 - Pictures from JavaOne 2008. Continuing from Take 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and more pictures from JavaOne 2008.
- Google Web Security for Enterprise - Google Web Security for Enterprise service, powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable your computers. All web requests are scanned in real-time, rather than solely relying on stat
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Daily del.icio.us for April 28th through May 2nd
- Use XQuery from a Java environment - XML data format can be hard to search, but with the fairly recent introduction of the XQuery API, XML searches are now flexible and easy to perform. For Java programmers who work with XML documents using SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and more, the XQuery API for
- Pragmatic Caching - a simple Cache Configuration Model for Spring « brain driven development - We’ve come up with a very pragmatic solution with a declarative style for cache configuration and a more programmatic style for handling caching behaviour. As always, the usefulness of such a solution depends on the given problem space and the surroundi
- Will open source save Sun? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - Another question for Sun will revolve around how much open-source software will be required to move the hardware and services needle. MySQL, with more than 70 million downloads, is a good candidate to jump-start movement in hardware and services. Will it
- InfoQ: SpringSource Launches New Application Server without Java EE - The SpringSource Application Platform has been designed from the ground up to instead focus directly on supporting the widely used Spring Portfolio of open source projects. Specifically, the application server builds on the Spring Portfolio programming mo
- SpringSource - SpringSource Application Platform - SpringSource Application Platform is a completely module-based Java application server that is designed to run enterprise Java applications and Spring-powered applications based on Spring, Apache Tomcat and OSGi-based technologies
- Adobe opens up Flash, but leaves out Google and Apple | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com - In a well timed move today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project and lifted restrictions on the use of Flash related specifications. The initiative is supported by several industry leaders including ARM, Intel, LG, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm,
- Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails - We’re hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java
- Google's Eric Schmidt - Exclusive Interview - All * Technology * News * Story - CNBC.com - CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with Google CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt Tuesday at the Milken Conference in Los Angeles to discuss Google's growth and U.S. slowdown, the possibility of a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo!, online advertising growth rates, Google's
- Ext JS - Ext GWT v1.0 Beta 2 Released - Ext JS is pleased to announce the Ext GWT 1.0 beta2 release. This release includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes since the beta1 release and is a recommended upgrade for those using beta 1.
- Automation for the people: Hands-off load testing - Load testing is often relegated to late-cycle activities, but it doesn't need to be that way. In this installment of Automation for the people , automation expert Paul Duvall describes how you can discover and fix problems throughout the development cycle
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Daily del.icio.us for April 14th through April 16th
- Searchable javadocs - Javadocs are good but not great as they miss a key feature of being able to do a full text search. Enter Documancer - It allows you to point to the index.html Javadoc file of a given library and one can then run full text searches through the Javadocs
- DataCleaner - eobjects - DataCleaner is an open source project concerned with creating a data quality solutions for business and organizations wishing to measure and increase the quality of their data. DataCleaner includes functionality to profile and compare data, to validate da
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Announcing New Release of JetGroovy Plugin - We’re glad to announce the general availability of the new release of JetGroovy Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. Version 1.5 brings yet more of IntelliJ IDEA´s smart, advanced features to Groovy and Grails developers
- HtmlUnit 2.1 Released « A Public Scratchpad - The HtmlUnit team is pleased to announce a new release of HtmlUnit. This latest version includes a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements, and sports excellent support for GWT, jQuery and Sarissa, decent support for Prototype and Dojo, and basic
- Enterprise 2.0: A Computer Security Nightmare? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - One conclusion, the report notes, is that users are routinely, and fairly easily, circumventing corporate security controls. And that is because traditional firewall technology was not meant to grapple with the diversity of Internet applications of recent
- Amazon's cloud computing will surpass its retailing business | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - Everyone else–Google and Microsoft–are working on their cloud computing services, but they are really in the first revision of their respective offerings. Amazon is ahead and tweaking
- It’s Only Software » 5 Minute Guide to Spring and Simple[r!] JDBC - I recently worked on a personal project to learn how one can write dead-simple plain old JDBC applications using only Spring Framework 2.5 without an ORM layer. Spring 2.5 has many features that provide some of the convenience of ORM libraries
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Daily del.icio.us for February 22nd through February 25th
- flexlib - Google Code - The FlexLib project is a community effort to create open source user interface components for Adobe Flex 2.
- dougmccune.com » Blog Archive » WindowShade component added to FlexLib - A new Flex container has been added to FlexLib, called the WindowShade. This container shows a header button above or below the content of the container. Clicking the header button opens or closes the panel. This lets you easily create expandable panels i
- Ajaxian » Adobe AIR v1.0 & Flex 3.0 Released; New Adobe Open Source Site Launched - Continuing their march into the RIA space, Adobe announced today the official release of AIR v1.0 and Flex 3.0. Adobe has taken the beta off of the wrapper as their have released both AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0.
- Mobile Desktop at Improv Everywhere - For our latest mission, three agents entered a Starbucks one by one with their own giant desktop computer and CRT monitor. They bought coffee and worked at their computers as if they were laptops
- Ext JS Blog - » Simple Tasks v2 - Multiple lists, NativeWindows and Reminders - In collaboration with Adobe, one of the key additions in Ext 2.0.2 was Adobe AIR 1.0 support for running in the application sandbox. Also, the Simple Tasks AIR application sample was rewritten to take advantage of more of the native functionality in AIR a
- Thanks Zed; Syntax matters; no more dumping stuff in Java; Quit pimple pimping Ruby; Scala warning - Can we just get some decent support for Groovy? No instead Sun invests in Ruby via JRuby. DOH! Groovy looks a lot like Java. It is much easier to get started with it. The syntax does not make developers want to hurl. Why is Sun investing so much money in
- The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur - Forbes.com - Vembu is a rare species in India these days. As far as I know, he's one of the very few entrepreneurs who has been able to execute on the premise of building software "products" and/or software-as-a-service out of India.
- John Resig - How JavaScript Timers Work - JavaScript engines only have a single thread, forcing asynchronous events to queue waiting for execution. setTimeout and setInterval are fundamentally different in how they execute asynchronous code.
- jsunit-ext - ExtJS based test runner for JSUnit based javascript unit tests - jsunit-ext is a custom test runner built using ExtJS javascript library in order to provide a better user interface and certain features missing in default runner of jsunit while not requiring any change in tests which have already been written.
- Codedependent - Java Swing guy joins Adobe - I've recently joined Adobe Systems to work on the Flex SDK. Much of the material I write will be about Flex, Flash, AIR, ActionScript, and related technologies, although I also intend to have non-technology-specific pieces as interesting graphics software
- Installing Drupal 6 | drupal.org - This tutorial covers the installation of Drupal 6. The video goes through each of the steps needed to properly setup Drupal including downloading, database set up and running the installation script. It also covers some common roadblocks and how to…
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Daily del.icio.us for January 29th
- InfoQ: Does TDD Really Ensure Quality? - Our main result is that Test-First programmers write more tests per unit of programming effort. In turn, a higher number of tests lead to proportionally higher levels of productivity. Thus through a chain effect, Test-First appears to improve productivity
- InfoQ: "Can I call you back about that?" Building Asynchronous Services using Service Component Architecture - This article discusses the need for asynchronous services when you build an application using a service-oriented architecture. Building asynchronous services can get complicated, but is made straightforward using Service Component Architecture (SCA).
- InfoQ: Case Study: Applying Java Programming Skill to Flex - In an article published on Adobe Flex Developer Center, Bill Bejeck shares his experience creating components and enforcing separation of concerns with Flex, from a Java developer's perspective.
- InfoQ: Kent Beck on Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck is interviewed about his new book, "Implementation patterns", the relationship between these patterns and XP, problems when adopting agile and the current status of design patterns.
- Enterprise Java Community: Introducing Apache Wicket - When you're learning a new framework, it's helpful to gain an understanding of the terms concepts, then move on to how the pieces come together. Wicket has a few core concepts to master, but once you understand them, you'll find Wicket much more accessibl
- SpringSource Team Blog » Spring Overtakes EJB as a Skills Requirement - Job listings are a good indicator of the true adoption of technologies. Sometimes these trends can have dramatic implications. Indeed.com shows that in November, 2007, Spring overtook EJB as a skills requirement for Java job listings.
- InfoQ: Flex Load Testing Tool Available to Enterprise RIA application - As InfoQ reported (Forester report), RIA is proliferating in enterprise information workplaces. One of challenges faces a maturing development platform for developing mission critical systems is to produce quality, scalable and well tested applications.
- » Printable Design Patterns Quick Reference Cards - The Gang of Four design patterns have been elegantly distilled into a quick reference guide suitable for printing on 8.5 x 11.
- Merging and branching in Subversion 1.5 - Java World - Branching and merging are two inherently related functions that are due for a long-awaited upgrade in Subversion 1.5
- InfoQ: ExtJS Ecosystem Continues to Expand - New server-side tools are sprouting up around the ExtJS client-side Javascript framework. Community developed server-side support now exists for Java Enterprise Edition, Cold Fusion 8.0, Google Web Toolkit, and Ruby on Rails 2.0
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Daily del.icio.us for January 22nd through January 25th
- Prototype 1.6.0.2 cheat sheet - Juriy Zaytsev just released a brand-new Prototype 1.6.0.2 cheat sheet that is a great time-saver for development and also makes a nice wall poster
- Tech's Bottom Line | Bill Snyder | InfoWorld | Move over, Red Hat. Open source ain't what it used to be | January 24, 2008 03:00 AM | By Bill Snyder - The market will see a convergence of closed and open source software such that the terms will eventually become meaningless from a research perspective
- Massive Java Update Includes Security Fixes - Security Fix - Sun has released another update to its Java software that brings some 370 bug fixes, including a number of security updates.
- Ext JS Blog - » Ext 2.0.1 Released - The Ext team is happy to announce the release of version 2.0.1 of Ext JS. This is a maintenance release that fixes several issues with the 2.0 release
- An Introduction to OSGi on the Server Side - This article addresses the reasons OSGi has stepped into Java/SOA server-side initiatives, including its main benefits and constraints as Java vendors shift their SOA focus to OSGi.
- James Carr » Blog Archive » Making extJS More Accessible to Java Developers - I randomly came across ExtTLD this morning while sifting through my rss feeds, and I must say I am rather impressed.
- Ajax and XML: Ajax for forms - You can do so much with Ajax to enable HTML forms, and this article just scratches the surface. However, it should give you some ideas and practical examples of what you can do in your own applications with relatively easy modifications to your page code.
- ScalaTest 0.9 Released - Today I released a testing tool written in Scala, which can be used to test Scala/Java code. It is a tool for testing Scala code, but can also be used to get started programming in Scala, by writing tests in Scala for production code written in Java.
- Ext JS Blog - » Ext Growth and Server-Side Community Projects - An excellent barometer of a project?s growth and acceptance is the creation of community extensions that compliment the project. It?s demonstrative of how users are embracing Ext and in some cases, need to go past what the core framework provides
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Daily del.icio.us for January 13th through January 14th
- Tweak your Ubuntu desktop with Ubuntu Tweak - Download Squad - Ubuntu Tweak makes it easy to customize your desktop environment and a handful of other settings like your startup session and power management settings. The utility runs on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 and could make life a lot easier on Linux/Ubuntu newbies.
- Project Euler - Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and prog
- Michael?s Random Thoughts » The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language - A Response - Blaming the first language for a failure to design a good curriculum where other necessary languages are taught appropriately is a naïve argument that misses the point and isn?t helping anyone
- bobdc.blog: Scraping and linked data - Somehow, code monkeys surrounded by earth-toned cubicle fabric think that it makes them resemble DJs surrounded by crates of vinyl if they use musical buzzwords to refer to the act of combining multiple things into a new one
- datejs - A JavaScript Date Library - Datejs is an open source JavaScript Date library for parsing, formatting and processing.
- Microsoft MIX07 - How to Make AJAX Applications Scream on the Client - A recent presentation by Cyra Richardson, Senior Program Manager Lead on the IE team, at MIX 2007 on Making Ajax Applications Scream on the Client went into detail on how developers should approach the problem of making their applications perform well on
- HTML Purifier 3.0.0 released - HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are st
- A BigDecimal Cookbook for financial calculations - Computations that yielded amounts, quantities, adjustments, and many other things were generally done with little or no attention to the special precision and rounding concerns that arise when dealing with financial issues.
- Apache Lenya - Open Source Content Management (Java/XML) v2.0 - The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 2.0 release of Apache Lenya. Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and
- Lightview - Lightview was built to change the way you overlay images on a website.
- Best Color Tools For Web Designers - Determining the core color for a web project could be easy but finding the right alternatives to match the core can sometimes be difficult. That?s where the color tools play its roles. Color tools help you determine matching color or even suggest sets o
- HtmlUnit vs HttpUnit « A Public Scratchpad - If you?re using HttpUnit for legacy reasons, it?s a fairly solid package, but don?t expect to get much support. If you?re starting a new project and are trying to decide between these two frameworks, HtmlUnit wins hands down. It has the features,
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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 30, 2007
- facebook-java-api - Google Code - A Facebook API client implemented in Java - The purpose of this project is to provide a high-quality, more up to date version of the Facebook API client for Java developers, and to allow it to be maintained regularly over time.
- The Mythical 5% - So you must learn continuously and teach yourself new technologies, but it's not that simple. It's definitely good to learn more about programming, but you can't just learn more about programming
- The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: Scientific American - Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort?not on intelligence or ability?is key to success in school and in life
- O'Reilly — ActionScript 3.0: Is It Hard or Not? - The code doesn?t have to reside in classes. Variable datatypes don?t have to be declared, even in the strict compilation mode. The language is designed to provide as much or as little structure and flexibility as the task at hand requires.
- Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier - This list will grow as I find new tools. So if you know of some not on this list do post them in the comments.
- Simplify Your SQL with Variables and Derived Tables (or Common Table Expressions) - As with any programming language, it is important in SQL to keep your code short, clear and concise. Here are two quick tips that I find are very helpful in obtaining this goal.
- Webwereld | Six enterprise application trends to watch in 2008 - If 2007 was any indication of what's to come, the one thing companies using expensive enterprise applications-ERP, CRM and supply chain management systems-is that more change vendor alliances, pricing schemes and software innovation is on the way in 2008.
- Checklist/Tuning Guide for Optimizing the JRockit JVM - The goal of this document is to provide information for tuning the BEA JRockit JVM using a checklist approach. A lot of territory is covered, from esoteric command-line options to iterative performance testing
- Red Hat and Alfresco Join to Deliver an Open Source Enterprise Collaboration Solution - Red Hat and Alfresco have collaborated to build an integrated collaboration solution - The Red Hat/Alfresco Team Collaboration Solution is designed to bring advanced collaboration and social computing.
- InfoQ: An Introduction to the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools - clipse's Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project is an open source project based on the popular Eclipse IDE and is used to build and deploy reports in a Java/J2EE environment.
- InfoQ: Interview: Bruce Johnson discusses Google Web Toolkit - Google Web Toolkit (GWT) tech lead Bruce Johnson discusses the design of GWT, how GWT converts Java into JavaScript, community involvement with GWT, new features in GWT 1.4, and the philosophy behind GWT.
- Apache News Online: 30 December 2007 - Apache Jetspeed 2.1.3 Released - The Apache Portals Jetspeed team is pleased to announce the release of the version 2.1.3 of the Jetspeed Enterprise Portal. Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Portal, written in open source to the Java Portlet API standard
- Generating JUnit Tests for Legacy Java Applications - Unit tests give us the confidence to change applications, even legacy applications that we didn't write ourselves. To avoid the drudgery of writing a test case for every edge and boundary, we can let JUnit Factory generate a large set of tests for us.
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.x Helps Avoid Conflicts - If somebody else has already modified the same file and has committed changes to the repository, IntelliJ IDEA detects the newer version in the repository and displays a banner on top of the editor
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Books I am currently reading
As I've said before, I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. I love books and could spend hours reading. With a demanding job, a wife and a young daughter, I've built up quite a backlog and hope to get to most of these books in the next few weeks. Here are the books on my current 'reading' list:
Technical Books
Scripting in Java: Languages, Frameworks, and Patterns
By Dejan Bosanac
Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0321321936
Publication Date: August 2007
Price: $49.99 $25.97
Rating: 
(Total Reviews: 2)
Sales Rank: 355093
Spring in Action
By Craig Walls, Ryan Breidenbach
Manning Publications
ISBN: 1933988134
Publication Date: August 2007
Price: $49.99 $28.43
Rating: 
(Total Reviews: 43)
Sales Rank: 6432
iText in Action: Creating and Manipulating PDF
By Bruno Lowagie
Manning Publications
ISBN: 1932394796
Publication Date: December 2006
Price: $49.99 $31.06
Rating: 
(Total Reviews: 4)
Sales Rank: 30402
Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts
By Cédric Beust, Hani Suleiman
Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0321503104
Publication Date: October 2007
Price: $49.99 $29.94
Rating: (Total Reviews: 2)
Sales Rank: 140707
Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This!
By Christophe Porteneuve
Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN: 1934356018
Publication Date: January 2008
Price: $34.95 $23.07
Rating: 
(Total Reviews: 0)
Sales Rank: 49628
Non-Technical Books
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
By Nicholas Carr
W. W. Norton
ISBN: 0393062287
Publication Date: January 2008
Price: $25.95 $17.13
Rating: (Total Reviews: 1)
Sales Rank: 1672
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
By Jeffrey Toobin
Doubleday
ISBN: 0385516401
Publication Date: September 2007
Price: $27.95 $16.22
Rating: (Total Reviews: 67)
Sales Rank: 9
Tags: ajax, books, iText, java, javascript, junit, pdf, prototype, scriptaculous, spring, spring2.0, tdd, testing, testng, Web2.0
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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 06, 2007 through Dec 08, 2007
- The 53 Places to Go in 2008 - New York Times - What?s on your travel itinerary in the new year? From a new luxury hotel in Laos (where you can take in the view of ancient temples from a chaise lounge by the infinity pool) to the waterfront night clubs of Hvar
- Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It's done! - Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that?s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes. We?ve even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the whole package more coherent and lean
- PayPal Says Linux Grid Can Replace Mainframes — Linux — InformationWeek - A Linux grid is the power behind the payment system at PayPal
- Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications - The Ajax View approach is to insert a server-side proxy in-between the web servers and the end-user's browser. This proxy captures the web apps JavaScript code as it is being sent to a browser and rewrites the code to insert extra instrumentation code
- Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code - The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. It returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, labels
- PayPal Says Linux Grid Can Replace Mainframes — Linux — InformationWeek - A Linux grid is the power behind the payment system at PayPal
- Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications - The Ajax View approach is to insert a server-side proxy in-between the web servers and the end-user's browser. This proxy captures the web apps JavaScript code as it is being sent to a browser and rewrites the code to insert extra instrumentation code
- Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code - The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. It returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, labels
- Roller: free and open source Java blog software - Apache Roller 4.0 has been released and is now available for download. This is a major new Roller release which includes easier blog theme customization, a much more simple installation/upgrade process, infrastructure improvements and other small fixes.
- infinitest - Google Code - Infinitest is a continuous JUnit test runner designed to facilitate Test Driven Development. Infinitest helps you learn TDD by providing feedback as you work, and helps you master TDD by reducing your feedback cycle from minutes to mere seconds
