LOL (List of Links)

• Hamcrest integrated in JUnit 4.4 and above (JMock like expectations). Also allows Popper theories (the link in the release notes is available through archive.org). which are similar to TestNG's data points. There are also some examples: here, here, here and here (using Groovy).


• Window Licker an interesting approach to Swing testing. See the Calculator example and XP Day 2008 presentation.


• The bushfires are retribution for the damned. Apparently, God waited 5 months (or maybe he was too busy appearing in toast) to smite those Victorians down. The most annoying part of this is the fuzzy thinking. Instead of considering that it might be poor fuel management practices, bad advice on whether to stay or leave or global warming it's actually about abortion. If you can speak of a real Christian attitude, the people of North Queensland donating their flood relief money straight to the Victorians seems more along the right lines.


• Haskell book to read and buy. Luckily in that order.


• SemWeb project VoiD a simple vocabulary for linking and describing different data sets.


• A couple of ways of fixing the billion dollar mistake using Java Rebel or maybe Maybe Monad (using Java 5 for loops even). Speaking of which: Monoid fingertree (trees in Haskell) and JQuery is a Monad (apparently that makes it slow). I also realized that Void is a valid type in Java Generics which is helpful in the dreaded Visitor pattern.


• Bill Moyers on Gaza and Dr Izzeldine Abuelaish sharing his grief on Israeli television. More information is available from ABC's Foreign Correspondent story, "The Doctor and his Daughters" because the wikipedia page has been deleted.


• The Poppendieck's on Lean development as to balance Martin Fowler on Scrum.


• Straight Skeleton as a way to generate a skeleton from a polygon.


• RESTEasy JBoss' REST framework.


• Microsoft's terrible vengence, Songsmith. If you love music don't click here.


• And What's up for Java in 2009?