Hi everybody I find this Java road map very interesting. It shows the skills to master for every career path. Hope you guys like it. My personal preference is to go all the way up, reaching solutions architect. However, I … Continue reading 
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Hi everybody, good morning I thought I’d share my thoughts before I go about my day. If you are looking to learn Design Patterns, here are my suggestions. Not that I’m an expert, but you know, this is what worked … Continue reading
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NOTES FROM USING SPARK in the HADOOP ECOSYSTEM by Rick Morrow Starting EMR on AWS Objective In this lab, you’ll use Amazon Web Services to set up a 3 node Elastic MapReduce (EMR) cluster which you can then use for … Continue reading
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NOTES FROM Java Build Automation with Maven with Peggy Fisher 1. Get Started with Maven What is Apache Maven? Apache Maven, is a software project management, and comprehension tool, based on the concept of a project object model, or POM. Maven … Continue reading
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NOTES FROM Up and Running with Public Datasets Curt Frye 1. U.S. Census Bureau and Securities and Exchange Commission American FactFinder link: factfinder.census.gov Most US residents know the United States Census Bureau as the government organization that counts the American … Continue reading
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NOTES FROM Fundamentals of Software Version Control Michael Lehman 1. Overview of Software Version Control Overview of software version control Version Control is the process of keeping track of your creative output as it evolves over the course of a … Continue reading
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NOTES FROM Asking Great Questions Dough Rose 1.Introduction One of the most important parts of working in a data science team is discovering great questions. To ask great questions you have to understand critical thinking. Critical thinking is not about … Continue reading
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NOTES FROM Database Fundamentals: Core Concepts Adam Wilbert 1. Understanding Database Storage Models What are databases? Databases are at the core of our modern technology and it’s important to understand exactly what they are and the benefits that they bring … Continue reading
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NOTES FROM SCRUM: A Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction Chris Sims & Hillary Louise Johnson What is SCRUM? A scrum team typically consists of around seven people who work together in short, sustainable bursts of activity called sprints, with plenty … Continue reading
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This blog is about so many different things. It’s about things that make you go ‘What’! And then when you don’t want to except those things that’s the part of the blog that’s in the second page it’s called “Oh hell no”! Then it’s like “Hold up”, because maybe I didn’t think that through, maybe I do want to know about it. And then it’s like “huh?? Oh okay.” You know what I mean?
I took that from the show Impractical Jokers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgsP_WAFbu0
I think that that’s the kind of conversations developers have in their day-to-day life.
For example, developers have to learn new tools everyday in order to keep up with the changing field. Some ideas may make you have the first part of the conversation, “what! I have to learn this stuff!.” Then you hear how complex it is and it makes you say, “Oh hell no!” But then you realize that it actually makes sense and that it is not as complex, and that makes you go, “Hold up.” But then as you try to learn the tool you get into some obstacles, making you say “huh?” Then you realize how cool the new tool is and how much it simplifies your job more, and that makes you say “oh okay.”
For example, I just learnt a new tool for testing called the JMockit. JMockit is primarily used to mock objects, not an instance of an object, but objects themselves like classes and interfaces. But the problem is that it is not as simple as you would like it to be. It does not conform to object-oriented rules, and thus it feels so unnatural for a developer to use. This is the part where you have the “what! oh hell no!!” conversation with yourself. One thing that I find annoying is that debugging a JMockit unit test can be very difficult, because the internals of how mock object results are returned are not well documented. For example, if arguments to a mock object invocation do not properly implement “equals(Object other)” then your invocation may not match any expected invocation and will return null instead of your intended result. It is very difficult to step through the mock object framework matching code to find the particular argument that is failing to match. But then there’s so many other pros of using it, so you give JMockIt an open mind. That’s when you go “Hold up.” Sure enough JMockit provides well documentation for other functionalities.
In my opinion JMockit is definitely worth learning. However, the author of unheededwarnings.blogspot.com, Richard, advises that a simpler framework be used if available. But he also says that “JMockit is probably the simplest mock framework to use after you master its unusual API.” So the conversation would end in ” Huh? ? Oh okay.”
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