Author Archives: Todd Huss

Testing DAOs and Business Facades

Posted on September 30, 2005 by Todd Huss

One of the tough decisions many people face regularly with DAOs and business facades is how best to test them. At work our current solution is that we let DAOs interact with the database which we've prepopulated with DBUnit and … Continue reading →

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Forking a dependency with a patch

Posted on September 26, 2005 by Todd Huss

Dion (whose blog I enjoy) wrote an interesting blog entry about forking a dependency in Java versus Ruby. For example say you need to patch Hibernate or ActiveRecord with a fix that hasn't been released yet. Then you want to … Continue reading →

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Zero downtime deploys with Tomcat

Posted on September 22, 2005 by Todd Huss

One of our systems administrators at work setup our zero downtime deployment solution with Tomcat which so far has worked pretty well for us. We needed a zero downtime deployment solution because we strive to practice agile development and therefor … Continue reading →

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One artifact/file per build process

Posted on September 20, 2005 by Todd Huss

Building on my most recent post, another objective we have at work is that each build process (which maps to one CVS module) generates one and only one artifact (e.g. a single WAR, plain old Jar, or a Javaapp Jar). … Continue reading →

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One WAR for development, staging/QA, and production

Posted on September 17, 2005 by Todd Huss

One of our objectives at work with our build process is that whichever artifact (jar/war) gets built, that it can be exactly the same everywhere, whether it's running on your workstation, cruise-control, qa staging server, production, etc. In other words, … Continue reading →

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Switching to Subversion

Posted on August 8, 2005 by Todd Huss

I’ve finally decided to make the switch to Subversion for all of my personal work which includes source control of software projects as well as managing documents across multiple work and home computers and operating systems. Here are the 3 … Continue reading →

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In search of a Ruby IDE

Posted on August 2, 2005 by Todd Huss

I’ve been looking for a good Ruby IDE as I continue to learn Ruby on Rails. So far the one that stands out the most is the Arachno Ruby IDE, it looks very full featured, relatively polished, and includes an … Continue reading →

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Changing a URL without changing all your HREFs

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Todd Huss

When writing JSPs using Spring MVC and Struts I've found myself hard-coding URL's and it just doesn't feel right. Later when I decide to change the URL of a page I have to go through and search replace that URL … Continue reading →

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Tabbed SSH terminals for Windows

Posted on July 21, 2005 by Todd Huss

There is a distinct lack of tabbed terminals for Windows. I’ve used SecureCRT 4, Putty, and more recently I’ve been using Rxvt under Cygwin (which doesn’t require X). However, none of these offers me tabbed terminals. The latest version, SecureCRT … Continue reading →

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Backup/restore compact flash cards with Windows and Cygwin

Posted on July 18, 2005 by Todd Huss

In one of my side-ventures, which I’ve written about before, we develop and sell Linux and Java based nmea wireless navigation servers for the marine market. The devices run a small embedded Linux distribution on compact flash so we regularly … Continue reading →

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