Tag Archives: Open Source

I Don’t Get It

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 5, 2010

Java’s open source culture confuses me.

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Open Source Journaling: Cornerstone

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 11, 2009

I did another brief update to Cornerstone last night. When parsing floating point numbers, I was doing a parse of an integer, then the dot, then a series of digits, and gluing it all together afterwards. Fred Medlin at the Java Hack Night pointed out that was silly, and I should should parse the value [...]

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Fit, AntFit, and Fitnesse: Test-Based Communication Tools

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 31, 2006

I was recently introduced to Fit (actually, FIT: “Framework for Integrated Testing”), AntFit, and Fitnesse. They’re pretty cool ideas for any kind of business development setting, and the technology is beautifully simple. Basically, Fit fills a critical communication void: the communication of what the software should do and what it does do. I am a [...]

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