Findbugs, Hudson and Pizza Driven Development (PDD)
As you may know kaChing (now Wealthfront) is an test driven engineering organization. Test driven is not an option, its a must. We move fast and push code to production few dozens of times a day in a five minutes release cycle, so we must have high confidence in our code. In complex systems there… Read more
Testing with Hibernate
Some of the unit tests I wrote lately involved setting up a data setup in the DB and testing the code using and mutating it. To make it clear, the DB is an in memory DB so the setup is super fast without IO slowdowns. Its very easy to do the setup using hibernate but… Read more
Sometimes you need a little help from your friends
…when the football gets stuck.
Konami kaChing
Happy April Fools’ Day from everyone at kaChing! If you’re looking for a treat, try entering a certain code on the kaChing homepage.
Z-Index and Local Stacking Contexts
z-index is a CSS property that specifies the order of your elements on the z-axis. The higher the z-index value, the closer the element is to the user. Using z-index is handy to make sure elements like modal dialogs show up above everything else on the page. div#red { z-index: 1; } div#green { z-index:… Read more