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After reading a blog post about some of the quirks of the Java compiler and JVM, I thought I'd perform a magic trick for my colleagues to see how familiar they were with the same quirks.
Laura blogged about Balsamiq on the News Blog, but this is just too cool not to share here on Dev Blog. New Atlassian partner, Balsamiq, has released an amazing new tool called Mockups: it's a flash-based drawing tool that is built specifically for designing software GUIs.
Lots of designers preach the value of designing paper prototypes before you start to code a feature. And we do it ourselves for much of our feature design. Some of the most productive design sessions I have involve nothing more
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Viewing code coverage often provides enough insight into the cause of a failing test and is a cheap alternative to adding printlns or firing up the debugger.
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Someone recently delicioused Michael Ogawa's code_swarm project. It provides neat little visualisations of all the commits to a source code repository, focussing on interactions between all the different committers.
It turned out to be quite easy to create a JIRA code swarm. The project is open source with some pretty good instructions. It uses the processing framework to generate visualisations. I made some quick modifications to add images for committers (if available) and stop them from overlapping
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