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		<title>My Simple View of Testing for Software Developers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assumptions + important edge cases. That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all I consider when I&#8217;m testing my code. But knowing that you aren&#8217;t satisfied with such a trivial explanation, I&#8217;ll explain. Since I discovered Test Driven Development (TDD) a handful of years ago I have followed it, practiced it, tried to adhere to its loose tenants. There&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=500&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After having a few very successful posts about the soapUI web service testing tool (see Configure HTTP Basic Auth for soapUI Test Suites and Some Thoughts on Integrating soapUI Functional Tests with Your Build) I&#8217;ve decided to speak at a local conference on the same topic. I will be delivering the talk Web Service Testing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=503&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>XSLT in Groovy: Quick and Dirty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As soon as you start writing Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) you&#8217;ll start to wonder if there is an alternative to the coarse language. Even after you&#8217;ve written many XSLT files and the sharpness of the angled brackets and other ugly XML syntax has dulled, you may still wish for the relaxed style of indentations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=489&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Python Code CAN Connect to an Oracle Database.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the beaming praise for the simplicity of the cx_Oracle project on their SourceForge page, I had trouble using the Python module to create a connection to an Oracle database. It turns out that the module is quite nice once you get past a couple of problems that have nothing to do with the cx_Oracle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=440&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>M3Conf 2012 Slides</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you attended my talk called &#8220;Your First Enterprise App &#8211; From the Trenches&#8221; at M3Conf on October 26th, 2012, you can get the slides here: M3Conf2012-NickWatts Thanks to everyone who attended for being so engaging. There were many great questions, which I thoroughly enjoyed answering. If you have any questions do not hesitate to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=427&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ant Task for Encoding Text Files &#8211; Reencode 0.1 Launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am announcing the initial launch of a tiny open source project called reencode. Reencode is a small set of tools—aimed at developers in the Java ecosystem—that help with changing the character encoding of text files. Initially, the tools consist of an API (if you can call one class an API ) and, far more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=419&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will I See You at M3Conf?</title>
		<link>http://thewonggei.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/will-i-see-you-at-m3conf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week from now, October 25th, the second edition of the midwestern US conference on mobile app development, M3Conf, will begin. It will be a two-day event, starting with half and full day sessions taught by regional industry luminaries. The second day, which is the main conference day, will consist of two keynote speakers and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=414&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Handle Heavily Nested XML Tags with XSLT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m new to using Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). Because I&#8217;m new and I had a fairly complex (or so I thought) task to perform with XSLT, I was confused at first. The task I had and, consequently, the issue that was tripping me up, was with transforming heavily nested tags in my source XML [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=409&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Rehash CodeMash (2012), Conference Video on InfoQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Mashed Code Magazine: It's that time of the year when software developers, mostly in Ohio, Michigan and the surrounding states but all throughout the country too, start getting ready for CodeMash. The call for talk abstracts has already opened and runs through September 15th and the conference organizers are now also taking on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=407&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Issue Published</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Mashed Code Magazine: The Summer issue is ready and, as always, this issue is free! Obtaining the issue can be anywhere from a benign act to a feat of sheer geekery. Here are the methods at your disposal and the geek point boost you get for using each one: +0 - Novice Just click [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewonggei.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2522298&#038;post=406&#038;subd=thewonggei&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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