O/R-Mapping: A loose-loose situation?

Today (while researching SOAP-Bindings...) I stumbled across a great (and comparatively recent) article from Ted Neward  where he compares O/R-Mapping with the vietnam war. Although this seems a little unpopular to some I'll have to go deeper into the article as time permits. From a first glance I have to say that I couldn't agree more (at least on the technical side)

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Cynical Reengineering ?!?!

I'm not shure really about it right now, but Daniel pointed me to an article about "Cynical Reengineering" wich really appealed to me from the title alone. I'll have to go deeper into this as soon as I find the time.

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Online Feed reader

Sometimes it's usefull to read your feeds - like blogs or update sites - via a browser.

From Stefan I learned about bloglines which seems quite OK - except that the confirmation mail they sent me was "considered spam" by Apple-Mail (at least it passed my providers Mailfilters ;-) )

Might be a handy way to stay up to date when no internet-access is available for my laptop.

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Automated acceptance tests @ agile-cologne

tonight at the 15th meeting of the agile cologne user group (in German) Andreas Thiel reminded me (and all of us at the meeting) of an important statement from the Fitnesse Website (cited a bit liberally):

Unit tests help to build the system right

while

Acceptance tests help to build the right system

A good thing to remember!

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Thats why.

Today I learned about the real reasons behind working Software - it's all based on quantum-theory... (via Burghard)

If you don't know which framework to use..

... look here

Mac OS X newbies

Perhaps this thread should be read by all Win to OS-X convertees. Although it's a little long it's worth scanning through it.

OS-X Simple Graphic Tools

One thing - apart from the cd-copy stuff - that really bugs me in OS-X is the absence of anything even remotely resembling MS-Paint. I suppose most Mac users own some Version of Photoshop or the like but I'm a consultant and developer not an artist that's why I'd like to have something lightweight, easy and free.
After some googling I found
Seashore (probably a little heavy)
Seashore
Seashore
and
Posterpaint

let's have a look at them... more to come
-mm

P.S.: Drawing could be done with
Inkscape or
ArtRage 2.1

Links again: XPath-Turorials

My ressources for XPath
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath

Links again: Functional Testing

Open-Source tools for functional testing can be found at

http://opensourcetesting.org/functional.php

Links mal wieder: Webtest-Support

A number of usefull tools aimed primarily on testing web applications

http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/annotatedRefs.html

Moving from windows to mac

Well, since a week or two I own a shiny new MacBook and I think it's time to wrap up my experiences so far.
Although I spent a few night trying to get the new feeling I was able to be productive almost from day one.
The build in Apps are a breeze, Mail does just what it's meant to do, the browser works like a charm and after installing the PalmDesktop my Palm synchronized (almost) perfectly with iCal and the addressbook. I only miss the categories but i'll have a look at the MissingSync (for Palm OS) and I might be completely happy again;-)

[posted with ecto]

Joining the crowd

Well - this is actually more of a technical post since I just created this blog and want to see if it works.
More to come later...