In the last two articles on Spock I've covered mocking and stubbing. And I was pretty sold on Spock just based on that. But for a database driver, there's a killer feature: Data Driven Testing.
First presentation at the Virtual JUG!
Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting the very first session for vJUG, a new virtual Java User Group that allows us to span geographies when sharing talks and stories. I'm really interested in the vJUG idea, especially now I'm not in London - if we can find good ways to share knowledge without having to travel, that will help us reach people who don't normally go to conferences or don't have a local user group to go to. Not to mention cutting travel costs and saving the environment.
JAX London & MongoDB Tutorial
In previous years, JAX London would have been an easy, local conference to go to. This time it took me most of Sunday to get there, and not because of the Super Storm. Still, that gave me the day to finish off the tutorial I was running there on Monday morning. Not that I would be so unprofessional as to leave preparing things until the last minute, oh no....
LinkedIn Etiquette
For no reason other than LinkedIn communications are starting to irritate me, here's my personal LinkedIn Etiquette guide. Feel free to disagree with it all.
JavaOne 2013
So, I thought a few months ago that my blog would become more of a travel blog than a tech blog because of the amount of conferences I was going to. Turned out that I was so busy writing / updating / practicing talks and workshops and, er, travelling, that I never got around to doing retrospectives on the events I'd been to.
Getting started with the MongoDB Java Driver Tutorial
Brief guide to running the MongoDB tutorial from QCon London and JAX London.
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Kids These Days
I'm a great believer in getting kids to code early - after all, I'm of that generation that was taught
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10at the age of 9. There are quite a few approaches to teaching today's kids in an engaging way, but I'm a bit wary of the sandbox solutions that teach kids things like how to navigate a virtual thingie around the screen, or lets them create things in a limited virtual world. I don't think kids will easily make the leap between these sort of games to seeing the full potential of programming - they're too limited and have no context for the kids. It's just another game.
Kids need to understand how programming fits into their world, they need to understand the context of coding, if they're going to fall in love with it.
JavaZone, Oslo
For the rest of 2013, this blog will mostly be masquerading as a travel blog.
The New 3.0 Java Driver for MongoDB
Information related to the currently-ongoing effort to redesign the Java driver for MongoDB.
How to get started with the new MongoDB Java Driver
The second in my short series of blogs about the new Java driver is now available for your perusal. In it, there's some guidance on how to get started using the new driver, whether you want to use the new (unfinished) API, the existing "classic" API, or a blend of both.
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