Found a pretty old but nice article collecting some laws of software development.
http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/07/18/laws-of-software-development/
(via Global Nerdy)
Laws of Software Development
Facebook to support OpenId as relying party
Some time ago I asked myself the question, “why does Facebook not support OpenId to log in?”.
Despite the fact that facebook directly competes OpenId with it’s facebook connect product, they’re even going a step further than most of the other sites featuring OpenId logins.
Facebook seems to become not only an issuing party (make your accounts compatible with OpenId) but also a relying party (accept login credentials from other OpenId sites).
Hopefully this will help OpenId to increase popularity…
(via TechCrunch)
Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems
Various sources report that Oracle will buy Sun Microsystems.
I’m not sure if this will make my life easier or even more complicated… (I have to deal with IBM Websphere, Sun Solaris and Oracle DBMS)
maven and canoo webtest pitfall
Today, I spent about 2 hours to find out why our canoo webtests didn’t run anymore after adding the webDAV wagon to our maven build.
The problem was that when adding the webDAV-wagon to your build as an extension, you also get the commons-httpclient dependency to the maven runtime classpath. This wouldn’t be too bad, but the 1.0-beta2 version of the webDAV-wagon depends on commons-httpclient version 2.0.2. That’s way too old for canoo webtest and is also deprecated for almost a year now.
I found out that starting with maven 2.0.9 you don’t need to have an explicit reference to the webDAV-wagon as extension anymore.
E voilà! Suddenly it worked. Maven 2.0.9 also seems to work with version 3.1 of commons-httpclient, the same version canoo webtest depends on.
So, if you get a ‘NoSuchMethodFound’ for HttpConnectionManager.getParams() first check if you’re using the webDAV-wagon extension first.
