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First-year computer science courses at the University of Waterloo will undergo a major revision in fall 2008. CS at UW is part of the Faculty of Mathematics, and all Math students (including not only CS and traditional Math students, but accountants, actuaries, statisticians, and many others) take two courses in CS as part of their [...]

I started playing around with Hibernate Search this weekend by following the getting started guide.
Being a maven user, I attempted to use the JBoss published artifacts (from the JBoss repository) to make live a bit easier.
UPDATE: Emmanuel Bernard has commented and pointed out that the updated artifacts have actually been published.
It looks like the Getting [...]

A rather humorous debate has started in the office around mail and calendaring solutions. Humorous because everyone running Windows loves Exchange and doesn’t see what the big deal is.
We’re a software shop with about 1/3 (of ~50) of the employees being in development. Most developers have recently migrated (from Linux/XP) to OS X. Windows has [...]

So I’ve been working off and on over the past 6 months on a little side project, JDBCSpy. I’ve mentioned it previously so this post is just a little update.
It’s far from my day job and really just serves as a bit of an outlet. You’re free to argue about whether it’s a creative outlet [...]

Coplien and Martin Debate TDD, CDD and Professionalism
Summary
Debate sprang up at JAOO ‘07 around Bob Martin’s assertion that “nowadays it is irresponsible for a developer to ship a line of code he has not executed in a unit test.” In this InfoQ video, he debated with Jim Coplien on this and other topics, including Design [...]