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Once again, Sergio was complaining because matches inside svn folders were showing up in search results. Since I like challenges, I wrote this small Eclipse plugin that excludes .svn and CVS folders from searches. Here’s the relevant file (contains...

Many times we put all of our effort in developing an elegant solution to a certain problem we have, thus leaving testing to a second place, without too much consideration for it. Regardless of being using TDD or just creating unit tests for the already...

I stumbled upon an excellent article by Martin Fowler in which he describes the difference between stubs and mocks, and afterwards the difference between classic and mockist TDD. Be warned, the article is a few years old, but still a highly recommendable...

Some time ago I found a quotation by Buckminster Fuller: When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Although...

Eclipse Plugin to sort proposals by hierarchy

A friend of mine just asked me if I had a black theme for Eclipse. I didn’t, so I made one. Here’s the result: Blacklipse You can download a copy of it. To start using it you must extract the zip file in $workspace.metadata.pluginsorg.eclipse

As you might already read here and here, the beta release of Neyun is finally with us! In a nutshell: it’s a web application that allows you to extract your emails, contacts, photos, videos and more from services like Gmail, Facebook, YouTube and...

I’m glad to announce the first Beta Release of Neyun has been oficially launched! Neyun is a web application which lets you navigate and query through all your pictures, emails, messages, videos and links, no matter if they come from your RSS feeds...