Tool Snippets

newAgile Workspace
Check out photos of planning boards for lo-tech ideas on how you can create an Informative Workspace.

Web Testing with Ruby
Use WATiR to drive Internet Explorer (IE) using Ruby, utilizing Ruby’s support for COM and IE’s extensive COM interface to the the document object model (DOM).

eXtreme Feedback Devices
Link up lava lamps to CruiseControl. Bubbles Green==Build Clean!

Alternative to CVS
The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community.

Hibernate
Try Hibernate for automating the tedious task of persisting your Java objects to a relational database.

Prevayler
Get started with Prevayler, provides a way to persist Java without a database.

Generate Interfaces at Runtime
Use CG lib to generate Java interfaces at runtime.

Code Coverage
Clover for code coverage.

Dynamic Mock Objects
JMock for dynamic mock objects.

Pico Container
PicoContainer sparked off by my Fermat like note!

How to keep your job
This talk by Pragmatic Programmers now on-line.