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Super Wetter, frischer Powder, eine verrückte Crew und geniale Freerides zum Abschluss. Was will man mehr?

It’s been a while since my last post but last weeks conference really deserves one. So, three colleagues and me went to London to attend the QCon London and to make it short: It was pretty good! Most talks I attended were really good and well, as usual, you can’t avoid to have a couple not so good ones anyway ^^ So, the main reason I’m posting here is Damian Conway’s talk Instantly better presentations. It was the best talk of all I went to, even though it had nothing to do with software development, agile or whatever. Nevertheless, I think everybody giving lectures, speeches, talks and alike should read his expose which is available on his website
Apart from this one, my no. 2 and 3 were both really good and amazing talks, but I can’t decide which one was better:

• Put a UI Developer in a Bank; See what happens by Horia Dragomir
• Hire Education – making interviews rock by Dan North and Trisha Gee

By the way, there are a ton of slides and more information available on the QCon Website!

They’re coming up with pretty good ideas to help people infected with malaria BUT the most amazing one comes after those “normal” solutions: A laser. I won’t tell more though, because you really have to see it yourself! It’s simply amazing (deutsche Untertitel!)

Video directly TED

Got a new toy and it’s simply amazing

Nexus 4

Coming from a HTC Desire HD with an old Android 2.3, which I was too lazy to root and update it manually, it’s simply amazing to use Android 4.2.1 on a device with enough power to send a dozen astronauts to the moon. The display is awesome, it’s lightning fast and the battery lasts longer than the Desire ever had

… he accepts one of the following challenges

- offer me a dedicated PSG jersey, with my name on it and the following quote : “After Zlatan, you really are the best !”

- stay at my place for a month. This way, all my life, I could say :”Ibra ? Sure, he used to sleep on my couch for a while.”

- offer me 3 lifetime season tickets, for two of my friends and I. Obviously, I’m talking about Official tribune tickets… don’t try to fool me with your crappy H Blue tribune tickets…

- win penalty kicks against me, at the Parc des Princes of course, so that you’re at home and have no excuse in case I win.

- beat me at Taekwondo. I’ve heard you’re not too bad at it. As I’ve never practiced that sport myself, I recommend you to choose this challenge.

- give me one of your hair lock as a gift. Samson’s strength came from his long hair. I think it works the same way with you. Then, I can make a key ring with it, which will bring me power for the rest of my life.

- beat me at FIFA13. You can choose the teams but, anyway trust me, there is no way you can make it.

- score a more-than-30-meter-backflip-goal in an official game. Just kidding… this is not realistic.

- let me slap you in the face, without saying a word… and in public obviously.

- offer a bare-chested dedicated photo of you to my girlfriend. Frankly, among all of those challenges, I have to confess it’s not my favorite. I’m getting fed up to see twinkles in her eyes when you take off your jersey at the end of a game.

- manage to have Neymar sign at PSG during the 2013 summer mercato.

- simply ask me to let you have this domain name for free… but face to face and – as a tribute to Guillaume – in French obviously.

Here’s the full letter to Zlatan.

I think it’s a great idea

So, we’ve been using Grails at gibbon’s five for a while now and stumbled into different problems with our unit tests. One of the weirdest ones were occasionally failing tests on our Jenkins that never failed locally. So we digged into this a little and came up with a simple explanation, that I’d like to share with you.

Let’s assume we have a controller and want to test it. First thing you’d probably do is go to the Grails Guide, Chapter 10: Unit Testing Controllers and start with something like this:

import grails.test.mixin.TestFor

@TestFor(SimpleController)
class SimpleControllerTests {
    void testSomething() {
    }
}

Now, if you have multiple tests which need some variable set inside the (controller.)request and you have a little knowledge of JUnit, you’d probably come up with something like this:

import grails.test.mixin.TestFor
import org.junit.Before

@TestFor(SimpleController)
class SimpleControllerTests {
    @Before
    void initialize() {
        request.variable = "foobar"
    }
    void testSomething() {
        // some code here needs the request.variable
    }
    void testSomethingElse() {
        // some code here needs the request.variable
    }
}

This is bad.

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