Test-Driven Development By Example

cover of Test-Driven Development By Example Test Driven Development (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Kent Beck
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The premise of this book is to design organically (No grand plans).

Programming is reduced to the sequence

  • write a test
  • write code that passes the test
  • clean up that code (remove any duplication)

Much of the book is about getting into and keeping a good programming mindset - one nice tip is to always leave a failing test at the end of the day (this give you something concrete to start on the next day).

This book has changed the way I work (a bit).

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Connecting Tomcat 5 to apache 2 using mod jk 1.2 (in a virtual host and using Debian)

This
is fairly well documented on the apache site - but you have to pull
info together from a few pages and the importance of virtual servers is
easy to miss.

  1. Make sure you have the development package for apache (you need
    apxs2 installed) taking care to get the right apache2-dev package
    I ran apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev

  2. Download the Source (so that you can compile for your platform and your version of apache)

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