Update : the book has been published end of June 2013 I have been quiet on my blog lately but there was a reason: I was writing a Beginning Java EE 7 book for APress. I am using the past tense because I’ve finished writing it. I’ve gently started in November 2012 and accelerated the writing pace as I was following the updates of the […]
This post is not about Java, Java EE or even IT. It is about the state of our world or, to shrink it a bit, the state of advertisement, business… and women (I had blogged about something similar a few years ago) A few days ago a friend of mine who was skiing at La Plagne (France) Tweeted this photo asking […]
After the announcement of the NoMock Movement I had to write another post about integration testing. Here it goes : how to test your nice RESTful URIs ? Use Case Often you hear that URIs have to be expressive… and you want to test that your URIs are nicely written. How do you do that ? Unit testing with mock […]
I would like to thank Arnaud Heritier who gave me plenty of tips and advices to write this blog. In fact if you want to endorse someone on Maven in LinkedIn, he is the man, not me ;o) If you use Maven in your projects you might wonder what “Let’s Turn Integration Tests with Maven into a First-Class Citizen” means. A […]
Sometimes life is about surprises. The other day I received an email from a friend saying “hey, congratulation, you’ve been awarded one of 100th people who will move IT forward in 2013“. Of course, I didn’t understand his email and didn’t reply. A few days later I received a more official email from the French IT magazine 01 Informatique who said […]
Everything started when Eve said ‘No‘ when God told her not to eat the fruit. Then my daughter said ‘No‘ when I told her to clean her room. Then we had a bunch of guys saying ‘No‘ to SQL. Then I read Is there such a thing as the NoMock movement?… And today I’m saying let’s launch the NoMock Movement […]
Stephen Chin had this crazy idea of touring Europe on its way to Devoxx, and interview people. He called it the “Hacking Tour – The Road to Devoxx“. On his way from Italy he crossed France, stopped over to interview several people and then he arrived in Paris to interview me as well as the Parisian Java community (Paris JUG, […]
