I’ve just found a new feature in junit 4.4: assertThat()1. This gives you a much nicer way of specifying assertions than the usual assertEquals() or assertTrue(). Some examples from the docs above:
assertThat(x, is(3));
assertThat(x, is(not(4)));
assertThat(responseString, either(containsString("color")).or(containsString("colour")));
assertThat(myList, hasItem("3"));
This is both very readable, and leads to much improved [...]
My latest fad is looking at developing Mac apps (in Cocoa). Since the Leopard upgrade, Objective-C 2.0 has Garbage Collection. Congratulations Apple, you’ve lifted it out of the dark ages.
So, I’ve been trying to read up bits in ADC, but my time is limited. This means I turn to podcasts like Late [...]
On my recent project at work, I’ve instigated a number of features:
An XSLT stylesheet that strips out all inline JavaScript and inline CSS before it ever hits the browser. Go-go Unobtrusive JavaScript!
Lots of jUnit tests:
Every piece of static HTML gets validated via RelaxNG (we had to use RelaxNG in order to allow mixed namespaces).
Ditto [...]