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It doesn't have coffee stains. It has food stains.

Jason Carreira has posted a list of Hibernate tips. Nice.

It seems like Mike Roberts is getting tired of the UI solutions of existing web frameworks. I've personally experienced similar urges for a while now. For example, these days I'd rather donate a limb than use Struts ActionForms (no, you can't have my kidney--I was just trying to make a point).

...I'll be sure to use Scott's interview questions as a checklist for how knowledgeable I am. That list should take a while to figure out for someone who's been 100% Java since the beginning of times.

In the meantime, I'll stick to knowing enough C# to be able to run a training session on test-driven development with VS.NET...

Dale Emery describes quite nicely what automated testing is about.

Elsewhere, Anind lists various types of software testing with brief descriptions. I'll have to remember this link the next time someone asks the FAQ of "what's the difference between 'X testing' and 'Y testing'?" at the ranch.

Finally, Scott Allen tells a tale of how he evolved with his attitute towards mock objects.

Michael Swanson pointed me to one of the coolest applications I've stumbled upon in quite a while. Witness newsmap, the funkiest Google News visualizer built to date.

I just stumbled onto a couple of old(ish) articles by Jeffrey Veen of Adaptive Path. He rants about CMS products and is quite correct about the real-world usability of many CMS products/projects being less than optimal. Especially so if you're looking at integrating a content management system with an existing website (disclaimer: I haven't looked too deeply to this so that's just my perception based on a superficial googling/rtfm session a while back).

Why Content Management Fails
Making A Better CMS

Alright! Radio is now running Pebble 1.7 with the much-anticipated spam blocking features for comments and trackbacks. Thanks, Simon!