As a developer I have made an habit of using the keyboard for the majority of tasks. Vim for example is my favorite text editor, which does not require point-and-click. This is a productivity requirement: the less my fingers move between the keyboard...

...is paved with good intentions. On Thursday I came across the video presentation of a tool to mock static methods in Java: PowerMock can be used to test code normally regarded as untestable! Have you ever heard anyone say that you should never...

Yesterday I was reading some posts in my aggregator about backup techniques, and they reminded me of a (famous?) quote. Thus, I wanted to share my preferred technique for sofware projects backup. Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload...

Sune wrote to me yesterday with some questions about testing Zend Framework controllers and proper dependency injection, which to me is a fundamental practice in object-oriented programming. I have already responded to similar mails in the past and...

You probably know I am a test-infected developer and big proponent of Dependency Injection. You also have seen from the examples in this blog that I favor constructor injection, where a component asks for his collaborators in its own...