Last time in this series, I pulled an “Empire Strikes Back” and ended on a bit of a down note. This time around, I’d like to explore how I’ve alleviated my Law of Demeter problems, and about how fixing a code smell in my tests pushed me into a better design. Up until now, I’ve…
Last time in this series, I posted about a good reminder of a couple of principles of good object oriented design (respecting the Law of Demeter and avoiding static method invocations as much as possible). Today, I’m going to double back on this consciously a bit to explore some more possibilities in JUnit. Don’t worry…
In my last post, I covered installing MongoDB on Fedora. This is another post as much for my reference as for anything else, and I’ll go over here getting set up so that my application successfully uses the MongoDB server. When I left off last time, I had successfully configured the server to allow me…
Today, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy a time I had setting up some JSP pages to interact with my ongoing Java/Spring MVC home automation server. I seem to remember the setup for this being annoying in a past Java life, but my experience today was the opposite. So, here is a brief summary…
Tonight, I enjoyed a nice success. Specifically, I enjoyed the kind of success that I’ve found tends invariably to arise from using TDD — I wired some things together and discovered that everything just worked (well, at least my java code did – I did have a slight oops with javascript typos, but that’s to…
