AppEngine Deploying AppEngine SDK 1.2.8 and Grails 1.2.0-RC1 to AppEngine If you use the app-engine plug-in deploy command using AppEngine SDK version 1.2.8 it will fail with the following error: [java] Bad argument: email requires an argument, for example, "email=FOO" [java] usage: AppCfg [options] [] [java] Action must be one of: [java] help: Print help for
People How you write code is a habit These last couple of days we have been having a internal TDD course at RemoteX. We had the help of Andreas Brink, whom guided us in testing and over all code quality. One of the things I noticed during the course is how heavily influenced I was by old habits.
AppEngine AppEngine startup performance attack plan revealed Google just announced their attack plan for handling the long startup cost for, among others, Grails applications. Apparently what I can do as a developer is to enable pre-compilation of my application. I’ll experiment with this at the end of the week I hope. Read the full post on
People Understanding code “I can look at code and understand it but i cant write code” There seems to be a common misunderstanding that if you can read code and “understand what it does” you understand the code. I’m sorry, If you cant write the code yourself, you do not understand the
GTD Test-list Funny thing. Some might remember my how I work with code [https://www.morten.software/2009/09/08/how-i-work-with-code/], where you keep a list of issues you figure out as you work with the code. Apparently Kent Beck presents this as a pattern called Test List [http://books.google.com/
Testing My testing behavior has changed Quite interesting. We just finished an internal TDD course at RemoteX. During it I noticed one thing. How I write tests have changed quite a bit, just over the last few days. Lately I’ve been doing a lot of testing in JavaScript using QUnit, and coming back from that
AppEngine AppEngine SDK 1.2.8 released As far as I can see there is no mention of startup performance. Doesn’t have to mean they haven’t worked on it. Ill check it out to night to see how the application behaves.
RemoteX Testing level + 1 I learned a new way to test objects the other day. We had a consultant over to talk about a TDD course he will be holding for RemoteX internally. During the discussion the suggestion to test an object by mocking the object itself came up. What you do is, you
JQuery Functional TagEditor I notice now that I cannot use the tag editor I’ve created from RemoteX Applications on my personal laptop. In requires a larger screen than what I have. Anyway, this is a working version of the design I showed to mock-up [https://www.morten.software/2009/11/26/target-acquired/
JQuery Target acquired I ran into a designers block while working on a new feature for the online configuration editor for RemoteX Applications. (notice the name change?) An interesting observation was that the risk for the design has shifted. In previous features I started with QUnit and the highest risk part, isolated it,
Web Screens taking off I just visited a local library. I took the time to pop in around lunch since they have reopened the library just recently (2 years ago?), with some new concepts in place. What I noticed is that they have a lot of work stations placed around the library. All carrying
AppEngine Prerelease of AppEngine SDK 1.2.8 I got this on twitter last night. Google is doing a prerelease of the next AppEngine SDK. Details can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/fe334c9e461026fa Only thing that worries me is that there is no mention of application startup times.
Tools SEO thoughts I’ve been playing around with the website grader by hubspot [http://websitegrader.com/] (nice toy), and there is one thing I never quite understood. That is the reason to list a site in the directory service DMOZ [http://www.dmoz.org/] or similar directories. I mean how often do
People Is software development too complicated? .Net rocks had a panel discussion a while back [http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=476], regarding the increasing complexity of software development. A panel discussion they have been refereeing back to a few times in the shows since. In general venting the possibility that all the options available
JavaScript Are you writing JavaScript or JQuery? I’ve noticed that more and more, when I search for infromation for JavaScript I search for JQuery not JavaScript. Have I reached the point that I consider developing JavaScript code to be JQuery development? It is of sort natural, as JQuery close to eliminates alot of the work required
AppEngine AppEngine enhancer issue The issue with the AppEngine enhancer [https://www.morten.software/2009/07/27/grails-and-google-appengine-on-windows/] still exists with Windows 7. Let’s hope for the next version of Windows then…
Ajax Rethinking design desicions I read a blog post at Three Rivers Institute [http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=398] that lead me to the following presentation [http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/11042/Dharmesh-On-Startup-Marketing-Video-From-MIT-Startup-Bootcamp.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+onstartups+(OnStartups)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher]
WindowsMobile Cab installation on HTC Touch 2 Just a mention about a bug we ran into with the HTC Touch 2. When download a cab file in Internet Explorer it renames the file from .cab to .tsk. Obviously failing to install it once downloaded. (.tsk files are the new theme-files from Microsoft) Apparently the bug is specific
JavaScript RemoteX Localization Editor final touches I’ve been working on a JavaScript client for our REST-service. So far it’s an editor for Localization [https://www.morten.software/2009/11/07/localization-editor-for-applications/] and pick list options [https://www.morten.software/?p=816]. But I was on a roll! [https://www.morten.software/wp-content/image1.png]
Added a plugin to twitter for me Trying out a plugin for wordpress to automatically generate tweets when posting. This is sort of a test.
Android Reading the Android developer guide I’ve only glanced at the Android developer guide, never thoroughly read it. Which I’m doing now. I’ve just started so don’t get your hopes up. Never the less, just after reading a few pages I’m already impressed. The guide is easy to overview, and it
JavaScript RemoteX Applications Localization Editor next step In a previous post [https://www.morten.software/2009/11/07/localization-editor-for-applications/] I mentioned that I started working on a localization editor for RemoteX Applications. This last week I started change a few things on the server side. In RemoteX Applications there are certain combobox’es where you can change
Tools Twitterer Looks like I signed up on Twitter just now, my account name is: “anshrak” if you wish to follow me. Top reasons, more playtime with my phone, cant sleep, and someone said I should. Reasons I’ve been avoiding Twitter thus far? Fear of Information overload. Since I have a
JavaScript Testing JQuery AJAX communication code I developed a JQuery Application using TDD these last couple of days. During the testing I used a new technique for testing my AJAX calls, so I thought I’d blog about how I test AJAX calls done by JQuery. First of you have to see that there are several
Alt.Net Alt.Net Stockholm coding dojo Last night there was a coding dojo at Avega’s offices in Stockholm, under the flag of Alt.Net. This was the first coding dojo I’ve attended, and it was a fun experience. We did the HarryPotterKata [http://www.codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KataPotter] with Object Calisthenics. I
