Archive for February, 2010
Feedback welcome: session proposals for Agile 2010
Posted by Alex Ruiz in API, Agile, Conference, Testing on February 25, 2010
I just finished writing two proposals for Agile 2010. As usual, I asked my friends for feedback (through Twitter.) Since the conference’s site requires registration and some of my friends don’t have an account, I’m blogging about my proposals, hoping to get some feedback (thanks Jonathan for the suggestion!) As a side (and funny) note, [...]
A (overlooked?) use case for the Strategy pattern, part 2: it’s not about Template Method
Recap As I explained in my previous post, I think there is a use case for the strategy pattern that, in my opinion, we often overlook: This is what I’ve seen: class A has method x. Just after method x is done doing its thing and before it exits, it calls a (sometimes empty) protected [...]
FEST’s JavaFX Maven plugin 1.0a1
Posted by Alex Ruiz in JavaFX, Open Source on February 1, 2010
I’m proud to announce the release of FEST-JavaFX-Maven 1.0a1! FEST-JavaFX-Maven is Maven plugin for compiling JavaFX source files. This is a complete rewrite of the plugin, as a Java Mojo. The original plugin was written as a wrapper for an Ant script. This approach didn’t work well: I couldn’t find a way to make the [...]
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My name is Alex Ruiz. I'm a programmer with special interest in Java, API design, testing and OOP. I'm the creator of FEST, an open source project that aims at making testing of Swing and JavaFX user interfaces (and testing in general) easier.
I work as a Software Engineer in the JavaFX Controls team at Oracle.
