… of many things …

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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I will be in Cambridge, MA 9/20/2006 - 9/22/2006 to teach a course on Test Driven Development.
I hop on a plane out of Detroit around 17:00 and arrive in Cambridge around 20:00. The course will be taught Thursday and Friday, after which I fly back home

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I was reading an article about 'RefrigeratorCode' on the Object Mentor blog site
A comment on that site took me to another blog describing the same thing but calling it 'CodeNaked'.
That blog has a link to an Artima article called Why Software Sucks. I thought that was an interesting sounding article so I followed the link. [...]

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Rails vs. Seaside
I have started my first app in Rails at work. Though I find it's ease of database access really appealing, I am not convinced that I find it a better suit than Seaside. There is something about programming everything in Smalltalk that is so much more appealing than figuring out "OK, [...]

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The following is one way to create a suite of tests automatically in Ruby. There are probably better ways, but this works for me.
PLAIN TEXT
RUBY:

require 'test/unit'

require 'test/unit/testsuite'

require 'test/unit/ui/gtk2/testrunner'

require 'test/unit/ui/console/testrunner'

class AllTests

  TESTS = Array.new

end

class Class

  def inherited(arg)

    if arg <Test::Unit::TestCase

      AllTests::TESTS <<arg

    end

  end

end

Dir.glob('*test.rb').each {|f|

  require f

}

class AllTests

  def self.suite

    [...]

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