act:ualise | technology

Only last night we were talking about web based code editors when up pops this feed item about Bespin, a demo version of such an editor released by Mozilla!
Looks interesting to say the least.

Following my previous post I discovered a very helpful email in my inbox from Johannes Link, the author of MockMe, who provided an example of using MockMe to unit test my PrototypeJS classes.
One of the benefits of MockMe, vs JSMock or Jack, is it’s observance of the 3-A’s pattern (Arrange Act Assert), I quote:

Arrange is [...]

I’ve long been used to having decent testing frameworks in Java / Groovy / Grails however its taken me a while to stumble upon similar ways to test in Javascript. I tried my hand at using JSMock and then tried MockMe. They both seem very capable but I wanted something quick to test a class [...]

Grails gets centre stage for being used by Wired.com in it’s new ‘Product Reviews’ site area.  Needless to say, I was unsurprised by (and in full agreement with) the following statements in the release:

Our developers are much happier developing in Grails because they can accomplish tasks so much faster.
Grails makes it easier and saves time bringing new developers onto [...]

Well who would ever have thought, but according to Google the performance of IE has been proved as slower than even Rhino, the Javascript parser and execution library!
It never ceases to amaze me how so much money can be spent on making such a pile of stink!