JUnit, TDD, CPTC, Web Penetration Training in Plymouth, Minnesota

I suspect that many of you are familiar with the term "hard coding a value" whereby the age of an individual or their location is written into the condition (or action) of a business rule (in this case) as shown below:

if customer.age > 21 and customer.city == 'denver'

then ...

Such coding practices are perfectly expectable provided that the conditional values, age and city, never change. They become entirely unacceptable if a need for different values could be anticipated. A classic example of where this practice occurred that caused considerable heartache in the IT industry was the Y2K issue where dates were updated using only the last 2 digits of a four digit number because the first 2 digits were hard-coded to 19 i.e. 1998, 1999. All was well provided that the date did not advance to a time beyond the 1900’s since no one could be certain of what would happen when the millennia arrived (2000). A considerably amount of work (albeit boring) and money, approximately $200 billion, went into revising systems by way of software rewrites and computer chip replacements in order to thwart any detrimental outcomes. It is obvious how a simple change or an assumption can have sweeping consequences.

You may wonder what Y2K has to do with Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS). Well, what if we considered rules themselves to be hard-coded. If we were to write 100s of rules in Java, .NET or whatever language that only worked for a given scenario or assumption, would that not constitute hard-coded logic? By hard-coded, we obviously mean compiled. For example, if a credit card company has a variety of bonus campaigns, each with their own unique list of rules that may change within a week’s time, what would be the most effective way of writing software to deal with these responsibilities?

Fixing Copy and Paste for Remote Desktop

[May, 31, 2014] |
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From Brennan's Blog which is no longer up and running:

I use Remote Desktop all the time to work inside of my development systems hosted by Microsoft Virtual Server. I use the host system to browse the web for documentation and searches as I work and when I need to copy some text from the web browser I find many times the link between the host clipboard and the remote clipboard is broken. In the past I have read that somehow the remote clipboard utility, rdpclip.exe, gets locked and no longer allows the clipboard to be relayed between the host and the client environment. My only way to deal with it was to use the internet clipboard, cl1p.net. I would create my own space and use it to send content between environments. But that is a cumbersome step if you are doing it frequently.

The only way I really knew to fix the clipboard transfer was to close my session and restart it. That meant closing the tools I was using like Visual Studio, Management Studio and the other ancillary processes I have running as I work and then restarting all of it just to restore the clipboard. But today I found a good link on the Terminal Services Blog explaining that what is really happening. The clipboard viewer chain is somehow becoming unresponsive on the local or remote system and events on the clipboards are not being relayed between systems. It is not necessarily a lock being put in place but some sort of failed data transmission. It then goes on to explain the 2 steps you can take to restore the clipboard without restarting your session.

Use Task Manager to kill the rdpclip.exe process
Run rdpclip.exe to restart it

The clipboard communications should be restored. My clipboard is currently working because I just restarted my session to fix it, but I wanted to test these steps. I killed rdpclip.exe and started it and was able to copy/paste from the remote to the host system. The next time my clipboard dies I will have to check to see if these steps truly do work.

10 Geniuses In The IT World

[Jul, 25, 2012] |
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It is rather unfortunate that in the ever changing and rapidly improving world of technology, we hardly remember the geniuses who through their inventions laid the foundation for many of the conveniences and features we now enjoy in our favorite communication devices.

This article is a tribute to the ten people who made these discoveries and an attempt to bring their achievements into the limelight.

1. Marty Cooper

Did you know that Cooper was the first to file the patent in 1973, when he was already working for Motorola for the “radio telephone system”. The Cooper’s Law is his brainchild and to think that he himself was inspired to come out with the patent was Star Trek and its Captain Kirk is indeed revealing.

2. Mike Lazardidis

It Is Time to Give Microsoft a Fair Trial

[Jul, 26, 2012] |
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Is it possible for anyone to give Microsoft a fair trial? The first half of 2012 is in the history books. Yet the firm still cannot seem to shake the public opinion as The Evil Empire that produces crap code.

I am in a unique position. I joined the orbit of Microsoft in 1973 after the Army decided it didn't need photographers flying around in helicopters in Vietnam anymore. I was sent to Fort Lewis and assigned to 9th Finance because I had a smattering of knowledge about computers. And the Army was going to a computerized payroll system.

Bill and Paul used the University of Washington's VAX PDP computer to create BASIC for the Altair computer. Certainly laughable by today's standards, it is the very roots of the home computer.

Microsoft became successful because it delivered what people wanted.

Tech Life in Minnesota

Minnesota is one of the healthiest states, and has a highly rate of literacy. The state supports a network of public universities and colleges. It encompasses thirty two institutions in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, as well as five major campuses of the University of Minnesota. According to U.S. News & World Report six of the private colleges rank among the nation's top 100 in liberal arts.

You'll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones. Jason Hiner Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program. C.A.R. Hoare

other Learning Options

Software developers near Plymouth have ample opportunities to meet like minded techie individuals, collaborate and expend their career choices by participating in Meet-Up Groups. The following is a list of Technology Groups in the area.

Twin Cities Liferay User Group · MidwestPHP Conference · PyMNtos - Twin Cities PUG ·

Fortune 500 and 1000 companies in Minnesota that offer opportunities for JUnit, TDD, CPTC, Web Penetration developers

Company Name	City	Industry	Secondary Industry
The Affluent Traveler	Saint Paul	Travel, Recreation and Leisure	Travel, Recreation, and Leisure Other
Xcel Energy Inc.	Minneapolis	Energy and Utilities	Gas and Electric Utilities
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans	Minneapolis	Financial Services	Personal Financial Planning and Private Banking
CHS Inc.	Inver Grove Heights	Agriculture and Mining	Agriculture and Mining Other
Hormel Foods Corporation	Austin	Manufacturing	Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging
St. Jude Medical, Inc.	Saint Paul	Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech	Medical Devices
The Mosaic Company	Minneapolis	Agriculture and Mining	Mining and Quarrying
Ecolab Inc.	Saint Paul	Manufacturing	Chemicals and Petrochemicals
Donaldson Company, Inc.	Minneapolis	Manufacturing	Tools, Hardware and Light Machinery
Michael Foods, Inc.	Minnetonka	Manufacturing	Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging
Regis Corporation	Minneapolis	Retail	Retail Other
Fastenal Company	Winona	Wholesale and Distribution	Wholesale and Distribution Other
Securian Financial	Saint Paul	Financial Services	Insurance and Risk Management
UnitedHealth Group	Minnetonka	Financial Services	Insurance and Risk Management
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	Saint Paul	Financial Services	Insurance and Risk Management
Imation Corp.	Saint Paul	Computers and Electronics	Networking Equipment and Systems
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.	Eden Prairie	Transportation and Storage	Warehousing and Storage
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.	Minneapolis	Financial Services	Securities Agents and Brokers
Best Buy Co. Inc.	Minneapolis	Retail	Retail Other
Nash Finch Company	Minneapolis	Wholesale and Distribution	Grocery and Food Wholesalers
Medtronic, Inc.	Minneapolis	Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech	Medical Devices
LAND O'LAKES, INC.	Saint Paul	Manufacturing	Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging
General Mills, Inc.	Minneapolis	Manufacturing	Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging
Pentair, Inc.	Minneapolis	Manufacturing	Manufacturing Other
Supervalu Inc.	Eden Prairie	Retail	Grocery and Specialty Food Stores
U.S. Bancorp	Minneapolis	Financial Services	Banks
Target Corporation, Inc.	Minneapolis	Retail	Department Stores
3M Company	Saint Paul	Manufacturing	Chemicals and Petrochemicals

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