Author Archives: Todd Huss

Search Engine Friendly URLs in Java

Posted on July 16, 2005 by Todd Huss

At work I’ve been looking into doing search engine friendly URL’s in Java. For those not in the know, a search engine friendly URL is of the form http://www.domain.com/foo/value1/value2 as opposed to the more typical approach of http://www.domain.com/foo?param1=value1&param2=value2. In my … Continue reading →

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Two additional Ruby features I wish were in Java

Posted on July 13, 2005 by Todd Huss

I’ve been tinkering with Ruby a little, mainly so I know what I’m missing since a lot of people really seem to dig it. Ruby has a lot of nice features that I like including mixins, closures, Rails scaffolding, active … Continue reading →

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Firefox web development extensions

Posted on July 7, 2005 by Todd Huss

My three Firefox plugins of choice that save me a lot of time troubleshooting and working out web development issues are: 1. Web Developer Extension: this one is a must have! 2. User Agent Switcher: I use this one occasionally … Continue reading →

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Only crazy people redeploy a webapp after editing a class or JSP

Posted on June 29, 2005 by Todd Huss

I tell ya, one of the things I love about Ruby, Python, Perl, etc… is that when you make a change to a the code or presentation layer, all you do is hit refresh in your browser. With java and … Continue reading →

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You can use XMLUnit without subclassing

Posted on June 28, 2005 by Todd Huss

I had almost written off XMLUnit because I assumed it required subclassing XMLTestCase and I already have my own JUnit TestCase sublass that I like to use. However, to my delight I discovered they have refactored out an XMLAssert class … Continue reading →

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Use and overuse of interfaces

Posted on June 14, 2005 by Todd Huss

Cedric’s blog entries on Extensibility the interface way, More on interfaces, and Numbered Interfaces got me thinking more about how often to use interfaces, prefixing them with I, adding an Impl to the end, etc… so for my own benefit … Continue reading →

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It's still too soon to upgrade to J2SE 5.0

Posted on May 27, 2005 by Todd Huss

We're a small enough company that we can make the move to J2SE 5.0 whenever we want but we're holding off right now for 3 main reasons: 1. I'm not interested in being an early adopter unless the gain will … Continue reading →

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Tired of checking for null arguments in the method body

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Todd Huss

One thing I find annoying at times is adding in null checks in a method body to throw an IllegalArgumentException for method arguments that shouldn't ever be null. Most of the time as programmers we skip it and rely on … Continue reading →

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Code coverage from within the IDE followup

Posted on April 19, 2005 by Todd Huss

Two weeks ago I wrote about code coverage from within Eclipse using djUnit. Since discovering djUnit I've become a huge fan of code coverage in the IDE to improve the TDD process. Since we're going to be using Idea at … Continue reading →

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Eclipse versus IntelliJ Idea

Posted on April 14, 2005 by Todd Huss

The Java developer I hired to lead the Java side of our port from Perl to Java came from a background of using Idea rather than Eclipse. He liked it so much that we're going to be using Idea as … Continue reading →

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