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TestDox creates simple documentation from the method names in JUnit test cases. You can load it using webstart from here

For Example, a test class like:

public class FooTest extends TestCase {
public void testIsASingleton() {}
public void testAReallyLongNameIsAGoodThing() {}
}

would generate the following :

Foo
- is a singleton
- a really long name is a good thing

It is a really good way of seeing the tests in overview — and of course in Agile programming, the tests are the specification.

I’ve found it really useful for seeing where your tests are weak, or poorly thought out. Its much more readable than JavaDocs and normal camel case method names.

We spent the day walking around Hyde Park — it was a really warm day (even by Australian standards) and it seemed that the whole of London was shirtless in the park… The Park was originally a royal park and the Italian fountain, at the top of the Serpentine, is an oasis on a hot day.

The Museum of Gardening History is near Lambeth Palace on the banks of the Thames. It contains, among other things, the tomb of William Bligh…

Every weekend under Waterloo Bridge is a second hand book market — surrounded by the brutalist architecture of the National Theatre and the Royal Festival Hall.

On a bridge in Old Street, Spitalfields, another classic Banksy.

Ben and I went for a walk around Highbury on the weekend — it was a beautiful day and we finished with half an hour lying in the grass in the park, watching the clouds. Bliss.

I want the ability to embed DOT graphs into my wiki pages. Just thought of this yesterday, and of course someone else has already done it — using moindot —- a webdot plugin for the MoinMoin wiki

So - I can now type a DOT graph {a -> b; b->c; a -> c; } on my wiki and see the rendered DOT version — way cool. You can supposedly do image maps with this as well, but so far I’ve had no luck with this — I may have to tweak the python a bit more.

Great for quick and dirty (or automatic) generation of diagrams… now how to hook that into our project…

Coming out of the Globe at night you will see one of the classic views of London — across the Thames to St Paul’s. And on a nice warm night like last night, after seeing a production of Richird III at the the Globe — there ain’t nuffin’ better guv.

… like when I read the program for the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. The last one I went to was an amazing and thought provoking week. I still remember the first one they had, when while having a coffee at Alfresco’s I realised I was sitting next to Hannan Ashwari, the then head palestinian negotiator and some other guests of the festival, discussing the future of the middle east at a rather higher level than I had heard before…

Spend Saturday wandering around Portobello Road markets, and then caught a bus back to South Kensington and the Natural History Museum.

This is one of my favourite museums in London, both for the contents and the architecture. The building is by Alfred Waterhouse, and has a wonderful whimsy about it. In the main entrance there are stone monkeys climbing up the columns, in the fossil areas there are fossils carved in the columns, and the outside walls are surmounted by mythical animals.

But what we went there for was the new Darwin Centre, a new part of the museum. Its a working scientific centre where they keep the ‘spirit collection’ — hundreds of thousands of jars of pickled animals.

The building is new and quite a sight in itself - a worthy sibling to the older main building. We went on a tour of the collection and apart from being really interesting, it was also much cooler (at 13C) with the 27C outside.

One of the best things they have is a cocoa leaf collected by Hans Sloane. It was he who, after a while, thought of the idea of adding milk and sugar to the bitter drink the locals made from it — and ended up with chocolate.