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Comment on My git svn workflow by Richard Paul

Richard Paul — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:59:20 +0000

@Nic Feature/story branches to allow for quick context switching and is the main reason I use Git. What are the benefits you see with Git besides cheap local branching?

Comment on My git svn workflow by Nic Wise

Nic Wise — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:22:45 +0000

this is pretty much how I work, except I dont bother doing the feature branch – mostly because I dont need to. At the moment. Maybe I will shortly :)

I tend to use GitExtensions on windows. It’s msysgit and a nice-ish UI on it. Makes staging files a lot easier for me, tho I end up using the command line for almost eveything else.

My workflow is:

git init etc – only did this once, took ages.

work work work
git add etc
git commit as needed. repeat more work

git svn rebase
git svn dcommit

I think I dont need the rebase, ‘cos it does that with the dcommit, but hey – habit.

I also have a patch which makes git svn work a LOT quicker (20secs vrs 2 mins) by dynamically loading the svn libs. Makes working with a very remote server (my svn is in denmark) a lot nicer.

Comment on BDDMockito & Eclipse by Richard Paul

Richard Paul — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:56:13 +0000

I’ve now aliased the Test template to ’should’ as I generally name my examples as shouldDoSomething.

Comment on BDDMockito & Eclipse by Alex

Alex — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:20:53 +0000

Thanks! Nice stuff

Comment on BDDMockito & Eclipse by Richard Paul

Richard Paul — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:04:20 +0000

After using this style for a few of day I’ve updated the eclipse template slightly. The position of the cursor should be on the same line as the given text.

This allows you to write the description of the context.

e.g.

// given a user with first name John and last name Smith
…

// when we get their full name
…

// then John Smith should be returned
…

Comment on Spring’s Dependency Injection & MVC by Richard Paul

Richard Paul — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:36:07 +0000

Hi Dave,

I’m not sure you are able to mix the Spring 2.0 (classic) style controllers with the Spring 2.5 annotations.

The SimpleFormController provides methods such as initBinder(HttpServletRequest request, ServletRequestDataBinder binder). While in Spring 2.5 you don’t extend any base classes, rather you simply mark up methods using the @InitBinder annotation.

Similarly @ModelAttribute exposes objects to the model, while in Spring 2.0 you would have used the referenceData method for this.

As for a working Spring 2.5 MVC example, the Spring download with docs includes sample applications. Check out the petclinic example in http://s3.amazonaws.com/dist.springframework.org/release/SPR/spring-framework-2.5.6.SEC01-with-docs.zip

Hope that helps,
Richard.

Comment on Spring’s Dependency Injection & MVC by Dave Birtwell

Dave Birtwell — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:18:54 +0000

Hey Richard:

Any complete project source code to backup the MVC slides, especially with the filling of the JSP and form:select block? I’m attempting to use a SimpleFormController with @InitBinder and @ModelAttribute to pre-populate the selection dropdown, but the code doesn’t seem to get called and the dropdown stays empty.

Thanks,
Dave

Comment on Using Dojo by Richard Paul

Richard Paul — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:53:02 +0000

OK, you can download the source from here.

I’ve also updated the blog post to include the link.
Please let me know how you get on.

Comment on Using Dojo by Richard Paul

Richard Paul — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:28:54 +0000

Hmmm, sorry Tom. I’ll hunt down the code and try to upload it tonight.

Comment on Using Dojo by Tom

Tom — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:40:30 +0000

Hi Richard – unless I’m mistaken you don’t seem to have posted the code for the dojo examples? I’ve downloaded the code from your previous blog and it’s not in there either?

Thanks,

Tom