If you’re already a Java software developer but haven’t used JUnit yet, you’re not alone. Some workplaces have not yet adopted the practise; believing unit testing to be unneeded and/or a time waster. In reality, that couldn’t be further from the truth – well written unit tests are worth their weight in gold when it [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/how-to-add-junit-tests-to-a-java-project-for-beginners/
The last couple of days I have been reading Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert (Uncle Bob) Martin, and I just got up to his description of why we should not use switch statements (or chains of if, else if, statements) in our methods. I attended a seminar a couple of [...]
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Today I’m reading SEO Warrior, an O’reilly book authored by John I. Jerkovic. I have been reading Chapter 4: Internal Ranking Factors. The first internal ranking factor mentioned in the section on On-Page Ranking Factors is keywords in the title tag. Search engines use the title tag in search results titles, and so if the [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/seo-warrior-updating-the-tag/
I spent this weekend putting my book Fast Track Your Success and Happiness: 50 of the best techniques for changing how you think, feel and act into online format. I wrote the book some time ago and would prefer it gets read since it is no longer being distributed in the standard book shops. So, [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/read-my-book-online/
I’m finding this interesting writing a blog. I’ve always loved to write and its good to be able to share things I am interested in with other people who are interested in the same. There are a few questions that pop up in my mind though that I haven’t found an answer to yet. I [...]
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