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Tools to Develop Faster Web Pages

Jacob Gube just published "15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages" at sixrevisions.com. It gives a nice list and high level overview of free tools that are useful for web performance. It includes such tools as load generators, profilers, and debugging proxies.

Pylot (my tool) made his list.. so go have a look!

TotT: Friends You Can Depend On

When you want to test code that depends on something that is too difficult or slow to use in a test environment, swap in a test double for the dependency.
A Dummy passes bogus input values around to satisfy an API.


Item item = new Item(ITEM_NAME);
ShoppingCart cart = new ShoppingCart();
cart.add(item, QUANTITY);
assertEquals(QUANTITY, cart.getItem(ITEM_NAME));