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University of Moratuwa tops GSOC 2008

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Nimal

I just got to know that my University tops the charts of participants at the Google Summer of Code 2008. Thought I have never been a GSoCer (that’s ow they call the participants), I have always been a great admirer … Continue reading →

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Luntbuild : Introduction

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Nimal

This is going to be another short series (2-3 posts) about a build automation tool. I got using this during my internship at WaveNET. I don’t this this is going to be a very useful post to many ( I … Continue reading →

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JUnit

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Nimal

Ref: http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/faq.htm http://open.ncsu.edu/se/tutorials/junit/ API DOC What is JUnit? JUnit is a simple, open source framework to write and run repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. JUnit features include: Assertions for testing expected … Continue reading →

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Renaming a MySQL database

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Nimal

MySQL does not support renaming a database (and prefers not to be done in the supported versions) as mentioned here. However, use of this statement could result in loss of database contents, which is why it was removed. Do not … Continue reading →

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Ant: Simple JUnit Test

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Nimal

This is the final part of the so called Ant series I have been writing in this blog, about Apache Ant. This is an extremely brief tutorial on JUnit. The goal is to test Ant and JUnit framework integration . … Continue reading →

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