Archive for July, 2011

iCloud Storage Underestimated

Monday, July 4th, 2011

I think the industry is completely underestimating the impact that iCloud and Apple’s cloud storage implementation is going to have. Applications synchronising data between devices is going to just work, without the user having to do anything to set it up. No accounts, no paying for separate services, nothing. Just buy the app in iTunes […]

Jackrabbit and Mockito

Friday, July 1st, 2011

I’ve been writing some code that talks to Jackrabbit, and wanted to write some tests. Testing this sort of thing has traditionally been fairly difficult, because so much of your code is just calls into Jackrabbit. You’d need to create a lot of mock objects to mock the Jackrabbit side of the test, often leading […]