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One of the pillars of design for testability, which is listed also in the Google guide for code reviewers, is to have constructors that do not contain logic or method calls. I will explain the reasons behind this choice with an example, but let me say that to reduce dependencies it is natural for a class to avoid making assumptions on the external environment, performing things like creating new objects. Separating the business responsibility of a class from the one of wiring itself to other objects is necessary.

Bundle a light version Java SE 6 runtime with your app to avoid dependency on public JRE while maintaining compatibility and keeping the download size small.

A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched the API to basically get a users tweets, pretty simple now I look back, but at the time it was the first time i’d done such a thing. As the development of social media continues this will increasingly open up opportunities to develop more and more applications that interact with one another and and make our daily chores more eventful....

I’ll bet that it felt like a momentous achievement to get a group of very well-known bloggers, analysts and technologists to agree on a “manifesto” for services-oriented architecture (SOA).

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Oracle's defiance on the issue of MySQL could lead to a formal statement of objections by the EU. In other news, the W3C is meeting this week to discuss the progress of HTML5 and JRuby 1.4 is released.

There are many reasons for designing and implementing data base schemas that are portable. This post outlines the reasons why you should be writing portable data, and provides advice on how you can make this task easier.