 |
John Ferguson Smart
 
John is a freelance consultant specialising in Enterprise Java, Web Development, and Open Source technologies, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, John helps organisations to optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development processes. John is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting, a company that provides consulting, training and mentoring services in Enterprise Java and Agile Development.
If you are a NetBeans user working with Maven, you're in luck with NetBeans 6.7.1! This latest release comes with a swathe of cool features to help you work with your Maven projects pretty much out-of-the-box.
Grails is an excellent, highly productive development framework that positively encourages good development and testing practices. This article shows how to set up a Continuous Integration build job to compile and test your Grails application in Hudson, for automated continuous integration.
Want to provide maps in your web application? The Google Maps API is straightforward to call from Java, and with an Ajax-ian approach, you can make it extra user-friendly. John Ferguson Smart shows you how to combine these approaches.
Jabber is a popular and widely supported XML-based API for exchanging instant messages. You could compose the messages by hand, but there's an alternative. John Ferguson Smart introduces the Smack API, which makes it easy to use Jabber services from Java.
Standards are so much easier to adhere to when your tools do it for you. Thanks to JAX-WS and its implementation in application servers like GlassFish, you can write web services as plain ol' Java objects, just by adding a few annotations. John Ferguson Smart shows how it's done.
The best way to integrate in a hurry is to have been doing it all along. This practice of continuous integration is greatly helped by automated tools to check out and build your team's code on a more or less constant basis. Apache Continuum offers a free and open source tool to do continuous...
Oftentimes, your new code replaces an older system whose data must be migrated to the new system. This isn't a process that gets a lot of thought, but John Ferguson Smart says it probably should. In this article, he shows how an iterative, test-driven approach can save you a lot of headaches...
Come take a quick, guided tour of Test-Driven Development practices! The following presentation is a module from the '...
One nice feature in JUnit 4 is that of Parameterized Tests, which let you do data-driven testing in JUnit with a minimum of fuss. It's easy enough, and very useful, to set up basic data-driven...
Test-Driven Development, or TDD, is often quoted as an essential Agile best practice, and so it is. It works wonders on green-fields projects and new code bases where you can start afresh and...
Selenium is a popular web testing framework, well known for the Selenium IDE, which lets you record and replay web tests in the form of HTML files. However, that is not my preferred way of using...
I'm very excited about the upcoming ...
Last time, I introduced some of the new Groovy support available in...
 In this edition of the...
Earlier on this week, we held the first ever ...
Maven 3 is promising to be the most significant upgrade since the release of Maven 2. While maintaining backward compatibility with existing Maven 2 projects, it introduces a number of powerful...
A good build script should be self-contained, self-booting and portable. You should be able to check it out of source control and run it. No buts. Period. The rules (or tips) that follow should...
I am thrilled to announce that I will be running the 'Testing and TDD for Java Developers' workshop in Melbourne on...
One of the great things about Hudson is not in Hudson itself, but in its rich library of plugins, covering everything from code quality metrics to VMWare and Amazon EC2 integration! But there are...
I've had a lot of enquiries about running the new 'Testing and TDD for Java Developers' course in Sydney, and now we have an official date: I will be running this course in Sydney on...
One of the awesome things about Hudson is the sheer number of plugins available. In fact, if you use Hudson, make a habit of checking out the list of available plugins every month or so - there's...
The first session of the Wellington Coding Dojo will be held October 28, at 5:15pm. Thanks to the Wellington Java Users Group for helping to organize this session. The exact location will be...
Just a reminder about the Java Power Tools Bootcamp sessions coming up in ...
Another handy feature in JUnit 4.7 is the TemporaryFolder @Rule. Using this rule, JUnit will create a temporary folder before your test, and delete it afterwards, whether the test passes or fails...
JUnit 4.7 introduced a few features that make it a little easier to work with exceptions. JUnit 4 introduced the expected parameter, which makes a test succeed if and only if a...
I just wanted to announce some new features that have just gone live on the website. In particular, there is now a brand-new blog section on the Wakaleo...
Last week I had the pleasure of being invited to talk at the Canberra Java Users Group about BDD using Easyb and JDave, using the talk that Lasse Koskela and...
 A new...
I am absolutely thrilled to anounce that I will be talking at the Canberra JUG meeting next week (on Wednesday, September 9, to be exact), about BDD in...
Last week I gave a talk at the Agile 2009 conference about automating the deployment...
Behaviour-driven development is a great way to design and build the web layers of your application. In this article, I look at how to use JWebUnit, a fast and light-weight web testing framework,...
|
