Where Are The Wise Men?

While I’ve been taking about Java and Spring and other techo-babble, my wife has been blogging about more important things.

Matt’s thoughts on Spring came on the same day I just started looking at it.  When I mean looking, I literally mean just that.  All I did was think “What’s this Spring thing people are asking me about?” So I found this ServerSide article that gives a 1,000 ft overview of Spring.  My first thought was one of Matt’s gripes: Programming in XML?  No thank Eww.  My second: When this abstraction leaks, it probably leaks badly [...]

To quote from this page from Michael Feathers:

A test is not a unit test if:

It talks to the database
It communicates across the network
It touches the file system
It can’t run at the same time as any of your other unit [...]

I’ve talked about how Opera 9 has become my browser of choice on Windows and Linux, but I used OmniWeb on OSX.  As time has gone on, there were things that I missed on Opera when I was home using OmniWeb.  But there were things I liked about OmniWeb.  So I thought and made a list:

What I like about Opera over OmniWeb

It’s free (vs $30)
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