Staging in git is when you gather all the files you want together, new, deleted, and unchanged — for a commit. Once you commit them they are tracked as a commit with a message and a number, and then available to push to a central repository or where ever. I use the Tortoise Git GUI […]
A few weeks ago I attended a nice little presentation about GIT at our local Chippewa Valley Developers Group meeting. After the show, and discussing the presentation over a couple of brews with a configuration manager and a low level C++ engineer — we thought that a lot of things weren’t clear like release strategy. […]
I’m not sure who remembers Yngwie Malmsteen. He was a hair rock guitar player from the 1980’s who was quite honestly the best technical guitarist I have ever seen. If you get a chance look up a video of him playing arpeggios. Fast and ON. He started a band They played around the United […]
A great little exercise is implementing a sort comparator. The problem is this: Goal: Write a concrete implementation to an interface “Comparator” that sorts an object Zombie by Zombie’s last name property. Comparator has a method “compare” that you will override with your implementation. The output is a new list sorted in alphabetical order by […]
Working on a legacy Logging class that uses Thread and a custom Log class singleton (that doesn’t even extend slf4j.Logger, but uses it. ummm . . . future refactor); the task was givern to me to test it. Looked in the pom and saw JMockit AND Mockito referenced, and no PowerMock. There were very few […]