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If your shop has trouble shipping quality software on time -- and let's face it, most do -- then this book is for you. If you're a manager, I'd say that doubly so.
-Ernest Friedman-Hill "JavaRanch Sheriff"

I haven't had the chance to read and review any books from the Pragmatic Programmers series. I decided to change that with the book Ship It! - A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects by ...
-Thomas "Duffbert" Duff

I was amazed that these five chapters only take about 160 pages and yet tell you all you need to know about successful projects. I’ve experienced a lot of these problems myself, and so did/do you, ...
-Javaddicts.net

(Apr 30)
And Java 6 arrives with a bit of controversy.

Ted rants about the lack of a 32 bit version in Why, Apple, Why?

In a nutshell, if your Mac has a Core Duo CPU, you're running 32 bit. You must have a Core Duo 2. (see this Wikipedia entry). Oh, you must have Leopard (10.5.2) as well.

Here's a great post that shows you how to make 1.6 your default Java. The Apple installer doesn't do that... apparently they don't trust the version enough to be the default Java on your box. Not inspiring confidence with that decision...

Man, I really love Ruby.

Category: Java

TISQA Software Testing Conference - Leap Into Testing for Tomorrow (2012-02-29)

My "Practical Test Automation" talk discusses why, and who, should be writing tests. (Hint, invite developers to this talk!)