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Entries Tagged as 'Computing'

A good article on testing timeouts

November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

http://jroller.com/page/Groboclown?entry=unit_testing_time_sensitive_code

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Tags: Computing · TDD · Java · Software

Dave Astels on BDD

October 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Dave Astels has a pretty good, if not controversial, post on BDD vs. TDD. As some BDDers will tell you, BDD is a specifications-centric instance of TDD. I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive (as Dave suggests) nor that BDD is just a specifications-centric instance of TDD. TDD done right is […]

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Tags: Computing · TDD · Software

Google == Power == Savings

September 28th, 2006 · No Comments

At the Intel Developer’s Forum 2 guys from Google presented a paper on how to save energy in PCs. A little snippet:
The Google white paper argues that the opportunity for power savings is immense - deploying new power supplies in 100 million desktop PCs running eight hours a day, it says, would make it […]

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Rails for Java

September 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Grails is a Rails-like framework for Groovy, which runs atop Java.
It uses Ant to take care of code generation. I haven’t played with it yet, just read through some of the tutorials. It seems pretty interesting. Maybe I will re-implement the Radar in Grails.

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Fuel Cell technology on the go…

September 18th, 2006 · No Comments

UltraCell is a company attempting to take fuel cell technology to the common consumer. They are boasting a fuel cell battery for laptop computing that will give you 14 hours of uninterrupted power.

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Tags: Computing