Every once in a while I see somewhere a wrong import to the old, deprecated junit.framework instead of org.junit.

Have you ever wrote JUnit tests extending a class that does some before and after work, so you didn’t have to repeat that code in various test classes?

Exponential backoff is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively decrease the rate of some process, in order to gradually find an acceptable rate. —- Wikipedia

Updated with second round script in Oct 26, 2014.

For some reason, Oracle blocked the installers to run only on a fixed OSX version range with a nice and explanatory error message. This range doesn’t include Yosemite, which makes sense, since nobody running Yosemite will ever want to write some Java. Anyway, here is how to fix it.

Earlier this year, the new version of the Java Programming Language was released. Finally, it enters in the field of the “cool peeps” with some features it should have since years ago, like Lambdas.

I found that it’s pretty hard to have a project with high test coverage and fast build… if the tests are slow, people will feel the need to skip them to speed up the build, and will probably write less tests than they should, afraid that the build will became even slower. You go out for a walk and w...

At the company I work Pull Requests are part of our culture.

I encouraged people to start using git, showing some of its features.

I think that turbolinks is great: it mades it easy to add AJAX PushState to your Rails Applications. The only problem with that is that we can’t use it any WEB application, because it’s a Ruby Gem. So I did some ugly-but-easy hacks and add it to this very site. I will describe the steps above.

Today, once again, my environment start throwing that SSL cert error.

So, this is the all-new UP version. It is more based on my own blog in some way, which is a some kind of branch of the theme.

This post is about the Twitter change from Ruby to Java, some years ago, fact that, sadly, is still being used by some people to say that Ruby sucks and Java is the best language in the world.

Following my previous posts with basic Javascript aspects, like context and variable hoisting, I’ll try to write some basic concepts of the Ruby language. I decided to start with something that usually confuses new Ruby users (sometimes they don’t even know that they are confused, by the way): the R...

This is article is the second of a series of n articles, where n could be any given number between 1 and 2 (inclusive).

People make a lot of confusion about Javascript context mechanism. I don’t think it’s confusing at all, is just that it’s different when compared with other languages we generally use.

Some time ago, I posted here about a simple project that I’ve done in my post-graduation classes. Since I need it in other projects, and also some friends ended up using it in small projects, I decided to evolve it a little bit.

I work in a company that have an enterily MS-based network, which means, all that domain login crap and everything that comes with it: outlook, MS Communicator, proxies, monitoring and etc.

Git has a lot of features, and I bet that 90% of who use it (including me) doesn’t know half of them. Well, maybe, someday, one of those “unknown features” can “save your life”.

Rails 3.1 introduced the asset pipeline, which make it easy to include versioned external assets as application dependencies.

Since I’ve seen the new Basecamp, I fall in love with it.

So, I just bought “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks”. I’ve read the Ruby chapter, not big deal at all, so I slipt it. I also skip Io, Prolog and Scala (for now), and then, fall in Erlang!

After a while using Jekyll Bootstrap, I just realized that it was so much bloated. Then, few days ago, I forked the old Zach Holman’s blog, and started to tweak my own theme based on theirs (that now is opensource). At first, I like it, but after a while, I just start thinking that it had a “old sty...

So, I just compiled a little list of things that, I believe, make me dislike Java everyday a little more.

A couple of days ago I wrote about how to build a simple and non intrusive AJAX status with CoffeeScript in RubyOnRails.

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For those wo don’t know, GWT-Bootstrap wants to port the Twitter Bootstrap widgets to GWT compatible and easy to use components/widgets.