A New Beginning

It has always been a constant debate on Build v.s. Buy. After working for an elite consulting company , and now a revolutionary product com...

So why do you think Ruby is cool? If you are like me who work mainly on Java platform, then you probably like Ruby because how much less cod...

As expected, Google has something cool this time every year. The last several ones that I have enjoyed was: How does google search work? Go...

If you are a blogger user, did you know that you can put labels on your posts???!!! I have been jealous of WordPress users for a long time ...

Working on several things at the same time and they are all getting very close but just not quite. I have to say this puts a bit of stress ...

Interesting... Although switching between QWERTY and Dvorak, and telling people about Dvorak is already hard enough. If anything, I would...

Enough said... Bye bye Eclipse! I know I am supposed to say "thank you and miss you" and stuff, but I really don't want to li...

This has been in my mind for some time and with the creation of Selenium-Ruby I finally have someplace to put it: http://selenium.rubyforge....

I have been having tagging problem with Subversion in Sourceforge . It took me several days to realize that this is not going to be resolve...

I always thought that Java generics is supported through compiler is a bit weird, and after 5 hours of email and spike, I finally know why. ...

A month ago, I have joined guidwire, a local start-up building insurance products. At guidwire, we are using SCRUM. So every new hire will ...

After switching to Dvorak for almost a year, I decided to switch back to QERTY, for two reasons. I was pairing at least 6 hours a day and wa...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7230144396191025011 I thought it was interesting on the part that SCRUM works with XP. I always tho...

I did it! Now build master can grab code snippet from another file and apply syntax highlighting using syntax . Next step is to figure out a...

Last day as ThoughtWorker, writing this blog that I have been putting off until the last minute, I find myself lost in thoughts in all the t...

So... I was chatting through IM with a friend of mine about something that I read recently ( Crystal Clear ). And the conversation, as hard...

I have been struggling with the File operations for a while, before I fully understand what is going on. After I released Cotta project, th...

This is the first part of the BuildMaster surgery that I have just finished (well, 95%) that have been keeping me up late every day. I wil...

I have been thinking about this for quite a while and the topic came up again recently. So I figure I might as well write it down. Keep in...

After played with rSpec for a while, I have decided to convert BuildMaster on top of it. However, the test2spec script did not work for th...