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 Fuller...

Again, Sergio, a friend of mine, came up with a need: to sort Eclipse Java proposals by hierarchy. What that means is that if you have a type C < B < A (where < means subclass of), first C's methods will be shown, then B's methods and finally A's methods...

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...

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 Twitter...