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Udało mi się popełnić drugą część swojego artykułu o tworzeniu prezentacji. Zapraszam!

How SQLite is tested

Interesting article showing that even open-source software can be tested professionally. What is stunning - there is 679 times more test code (counted in SLOC) that in the application itself!

Thanks to Arek for showing me that article.

A word about bug reporting...

... which is somehow obvious when said, but it's not a common knowledge yet.

How to write a good bug report

A nice mock-up tool

During one of my recent projects I had an opportunity to try out MockingBird. I must say that - yet still a bit limited - it is a wonderful tool to mock up interfaces and try them out on regular users.

Unfortunately, I have not tried out other tools (this one sufficed) - of which I've heard of balsamiq - but it seems that this one is really worth mentioning.

Let me know if you have your own experiences with these tools!

23.04.2010 - Grzesiek has posted the list of 10 Excellent Tools  for Creating Web Design Wireframes on the buzz. Thanks!

O prelekcjach słów kilka, czyli nowy wpis na nierobcietegosami.pl

Udało mi się spłodzić kolejny wpis na nierobcietegosami.pl, tym razem o przeprowadzaniu prelekcji. Mam nadzieję, że Wam się spodoba i podzielicie się swoimi spostrzeżeniami na temat opowiadania ludziom o ciekawych rzeczach.

Mind mapping tool

This is going to be an advert. Let my fascination be the excuse.

ConceptDraw MindMap/Project/Pro tools.

Really cool!

A word about software metrics...

This article gives a nice and exhaustive overview of metrics used in software (code) evaluation. I'm a fan of the cyclomatic complexity and test coverage metrics, but I was unaware of the other ones. After reading this article, let me ask: which metric do you use to evaluate your software, Developer?

Update: even more metrics (coverage-related) here.

Java object serialization - 5 things you should know about

This is an article that a Java developer should be awared of. It's not really innovative; it just points out the basics that one should know when it comes to serializing an object in Java. For more exhaustive lecture (covering many more important issues related to Java programming), I suggest reading Effective Java by Joshua Bloch.

By the way, if you didn't read Java Generics and Collections by Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler (homepage), you really should.

Pierwsze kroki na nierobcietegosami.pl

Zostały postawione :-)

Recent readings

Holidays gave me some time to catch up with some articles I've decided to read, but was unable to due to "things-that-have-to-be-done-right-now" ;-) Having some spare minutes, I read the following:

• Martin Fowler - Continuous Integration
• James Shore - Continuous Integrations is an attitude, not a tool
• in the mean time: Martin Fowler - Diff debugging
• C++ Template FAQ
• Introducing BDD
• Successful Git branching model.

One more to go: JavaScript closures, but not for today. I'll get to it when I'll start playing with Javascript (which I'm going to do soon).

All are worth reading (maybe except from C++ Template FAQ and Javascript closuers, if you're not interested), I think.