Abstract : Ever had an impression you're changing what you're observing by simply observing it? If you so, you may have hit a Heisenbug ([1], [2]). Well, OK, I agree that a more precise definition of "observing" is needed and that we can differentiate between…
Abstract : Midnight Commander (MC) is one of the few tools I'm still using since I've been inducted into software engineering more than 10 years ago (for comparison I've changed 5 integrated development environments (IDE) ). MC is classified as "a visual file…
Abstract : Dependency Injection (DI) is refine flavor of Inversion of Control (IoC) design pattern. One of the software frameworks out there which provides DI implementation is Spring. AKKA on the other hand is "a toolkit and runtime for building highly concur…
Abstract : Having a great number of useful features, Jetty is one of the most popular servlet containers around. In this post we are going to prepare our test-bed with Jetty using exploded web archives (WAR) without any integrated development environment (IDE)…
Abstract : One of the few frameworks implementing the actor model is AKKA. In fact AKKA is a lot more than just an implementation of the actor model, but within this post we are going to concentrate on combining Mockito, JUnit and FEST-Reflect in order to faci…
Abstract: For one reason or another it's often needed to access fields which are nested (sometimes deeply nested) within other fields. Of course you can write the logic yourself or (from now on) you can simply use the light-weighted framework FEST Reflect v1.4…
Abstract: The present article will give a brief introduction to a way of building JavaScript based web applications using RequireJS (version 2.0.1), jQuery (version 1.7.2), Underscore (version 1.3.3.), Backbone.js (version 0.9.2), Backbone.Marionette (version…