Hello everybody. I’d like to explain a lot about a topic that is very near my heart. If your job is in an office you will understand this. Why offices? So why are we sitting together in one big place cramped up with 20-300 other people? Why bother the catering and the ventilation and what not to accommodate these people at one place? Why not just leave them be and let them work at home? ...

Hello folks! Today I would like to write about something very interesting I’m seeing all over the place from recruiters. And that is tool requirements from developers. For words So why is it a problem that in a requirement from a developer there a lots of these: DB2 QTP Ranorex Eclipse ( yes I saw a few of these. ) Hibernate Grails Ruby on Rails . Long answer The answer is simple yet it has it’s roots very deep in the recruitment and the way companies work. ...

Hello folks. Today I would like to talk to you about something interesting I was talking about with a developer friend. We talked about the quality of test code. He said. And I will quote this.“Why should we care? It’s not production code. We aren’t giving it to the customer.” There are a few reasons why you are going to get a slap in the face for a sentence like this. And let’s clarify here that we are talking about unit and functional tests as well. It shouldn’t matter what tests you are thinking about. ...

Dear everbody. I’d like to present you a small idea I was working on recently. The reminiscence of an old program. From the view point of the program. I’m planning to put these out in few days successions. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers, Gergely. If I remember correctly it was the year 2012 when I was born. I’m unsure of this date as my subroutines and algorithms have been re-written so many times that if it weren’t for my backups I wouldn’t remember a thing. I was a bold adventure of some young minds who thought that with me they will change the face of the world. ...

Hi folks. I’d like to share today something with all of you. I’ve been thinking about how technology affected my life in the long run. And how I perceive the world today around me. So let’s go around this topic for a little bit shall we? The Past So as somebody who lived for a while without technology coming near family for a decade or so I have a little bit of past in me without smart phones, gadgets, tv or computers for that matter. Much times needed to pass as my family slowly got the money to gather to buy us our new part of the family the ZX Spectrum. ...

Hello. I created a tale of why not to automate everything. With legos. Enjoy. Gergely.

Hello everybody. I’ve been messing around with sublime for some time now. And been using it to write entires and stuff. So here I was thinking why the hell I should not us it as my main blog entry writer. And being the curious guy I was I thought that creating a plugin that let’s you submit your post from your favorite editor is just the thing I need. So without any further ado here it is. The wordpress blog entry submitter plugin for sublime text: Sublime WordPress Plugin ...

Hey folks. I find out something new about cucumber-jvm every day. If you want something that is executed after all of the tests have finished you must use the Java shutdownHook. It’s simple really you add in a block of code that can run right before the JVM quits. I know I know. It sounds awful but I found out that this is the actual way of doing this with java / cucumber. ...

Hello everybody. I would like to show you a gem today that I found out. Apparently there is no easy way to get to the name of an executing cucumber scenario in cucumber-jvm You can try something like that: @After //this is cucumbers @Afters public static void afterExecution(Scenario scenario) { logger.log("The status of the test is: " + scenario.getStatus()); } But that isn’t giving you too much now is it? And the API of scenario is as small as it can get. It offers you four options: ...

Hi folks. I attended a 4 day course of Groovy and Grails and this is my attempt at writing up a summary to see how much I retained. I’ll try to do this from the top of my head without peaking at my notes. So let’s begin. Introductions First of all, introductions. The course was held by Peter Ledbrook. He is the guy who wrote Grails in Action. He is awesome, go check him out. :: Twitter :: ...