August :: 2007 :: Modular Mind

I’m really excited to attend EclipseWorld in November. I wasn’t able to go last year but have heard from others that the signal to noise ratio was pretty high. The highlight for me will be doing a full-day tutorial on Test-Driven Development with Robert Martin (who’s also a keynote speaker). I’ll also be giving two talks of my own:

Plug-in Best Practices for Rich Client Applications
Leveraging the Model-View-Presenter Pattern in Rich Client Applications

Hopefully, I’ll be contributing more signal than noise!

I thought this would be a good time to mention the conference because the cost goes up on August 31st. Also, my personal conference tip is to always book a hotel room even if you’re not committed to going. There are no cancellation charges and you’re guaranteed to not wind up in an overflow hotel. I’m sure the hotels are thrilled with people like me!

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In a previous post, I provided a set of projects that you could use to get a sample build running quickly. The idea was that getting your first build running is half the battle. From that point on, you can make small, incremental changes to accomplish what you like.

A common request I’ve received, though, is to provide a similar sample build that includes the running of JUnits using the Eclipse Test Framework. Well here it is! Just download and import the sample projects, and follow the directions in the included readme.txt file.

Note: If you want to run this sample build using Eclipse 3.2, you’ll need to work around a PDE Build defect. For instructions on how to do this, check out the “Problems parsing feature file in a product build” section on the PDE Build wiki page.

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