Lotusphere

Well I booked my tickets for Lotusphere. Can't say I am really looking forward to any of the sessions but I am really excited about expanding my collection of Websphere fridge magnets.

See you there my special computer chums.

Primate Programming

This made laugh out loud. Check out the rates, they look good to me.

Software Development = Ker-plunk

I was big into test driven development with junit and ant. Everything was tickety-boo until I got into j2me development and discovered it does not support reflection which means my junit tests were not going to work on the main body of my code.

Bugger, I thought.

Being under time pressure to get something together on a phone before xmas I ploughed on regardless. Suffice to say all I manged to do was to implement the the ker-plunk pattern.

The Ker-Plunk pattern is when you rush the code and eventually loose your thread. Once you refactor any thing to gain a bit of control, you break something else. As it says on the front of the box:

Pull out the sticks and try not to let the marbles fall in this nerve wracking game of skill!

So I went back to basics, abandoned jcreator; loaded eclipse and installed the eclipse j2me plugin; set up j2meUnit a testing framework for j2me and felt a lot better.

Do things properly my special computer chums or you'll end up playing Ker-Plunk.