Saturday, April 16, 2016

Darren on the JVM: Intro to TDD Part 1: Some Ideas, Principles & Techniques

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PROLOGUE A while ago now I applied for a Java role at a certain newspaper, having heard they were Agile and proponents of TDD. After a su...
Thursday, January 07, 2016

Darren on the JVM: Scala: Null Coalescing Operator for Scala

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Null (Safe|Dereferencing|Coalescing) Operator I stumbled on to this concept a while ago when researching the many cool features of Scala. I...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Darren on the JVM: Scala: Timely Type-Classes Brings Rails-style Date Arithmetic

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For those of you who have ever done any Ruby development on Rails super-charged with ActiveRecord (as I recall back from 2008), you would ha...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Darren on the JVM: Java and Scala with IntelliJ's Compile Server

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PROLOGUE I went searching YouTrack, doing my due diligence, for an issue (described below) before raising a feature request for IntelliJ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Darren on Blogger: Pagination for Blogger powered by jQuery

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UPDATE: Replaced all uses of the pagelist class with pagelinks , as depending on the template used, Blogger may or may not use this class ...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Darren on Flex: FlexUnit4 Testing with Parsley - Testing with Mock Injections

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In Part-5 I showed how to tidy away all (most of) the Parsley Messaging and Flex event management boiler-plate by extending the Fluint-awar...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Darren on Flex: FlexUnit4 Testing with Parsley - Testing with a Parsley-Aware DSL

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In Part-4 I showed how to use [RunWith] and [Rule] to locate and hide Parsley context initialization; with the reduced duplication in thi...
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