I can always count on being with my family to remind me what really matters. Here are a group of people who don't talk about other people, no filler.. we all talk about what is next for us and what is changing.
Perhaps because, in my family, everything is always changing :)
Not as drastically as my life is about to change, yet in interesting ways. My sister is seeking to live more frugally at the same time as reducing her ecological footprint. She's such a model citizen - so I gave her a bicycle for Christmas ;) She gave me a superb bracelet made from glass pieces picked up from the beach.. and my younger brother a 24 CD holder made from scrap PCB material.
She makes me feel guilty. Probably this will make me improve myself. And this is how the world changes; one breath at a time.
Friday, December 29, 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
a happy time of year
Christmas for the last 6 years is the time when everyone else goes off to spend time with family and I hang about working late and enjoy getting stuff done without looming deadlines. This year, I'm still enjoying getting work done without deadlines - but I'm also in the crowd that's going off to see family. I can't imagine anything more exciting than wrapping up a bunch of toys and books for my gorgeous nephews and home-made Christmas cards.
I may not be the sweetest person year round ;) .. but I love my family and I love doing stuff for them.
Work is allowing me to do things for others also. Our business influence has been diverted by other happenings, and we've turned to the task of beefing up test coverage. This is an ancient but robust design with EJB-CMP persistence and a long user transaction scope. Tests have consisted of either developers constructing objects or cactus based tests. Not good - developers tend to create only sensible objects and container tests are enough extra work that the tests are not often run.
I've simplified with a wonderful library called XStream. At any point during a transaction I can export my entire state to XML and save into a test resources folder. Unit tests can now run - without dummy test data being setup, no dependencies on environment and outside the container - with a full and accurate representation of a user transaction!
The beautiful side effect is that support staff can do the same thing with client transactions in production :)
I may not be the sweetest person year round ;) .. but I love my family and I love doing stuff for them.
Work is allowing me to do things for others also. Our business influence has been diverted by other happenings, and we've turned to the task of beefing up test coverage. This is an ancient but robust design with EJB-CMP persistence and a long user transaction scope. Tests have consisted of either developers constructing objects or cactus based tests. Not good - developers tend to create only sensible objects and container tests are enough extra work that the tests are not often run.
I've simplified with a wonderful library called XStream. At any point during a transaction I can export my entire state to XML and save into a test resources folder. Unit tests can now run - without dummy test data being setup, no dependencies on environment and outside the container - with a full and accurate representation of a user transaction!
The beautiful side effect is that support staff can do the same thing with client transactions in production :)
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