Monthly Archives: September 2014

Amazon SDK broken dependencies

If you have received this error message: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unsupported cookie spec: default It is because Amazon made their SDK dependency look like this: +— com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk | +— org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:[4.1, 5.0) -> 4.4-beta1 | | +— org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4-beta1 i.e. they made an open-ended … Continue reading

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Use a DSA to implement your DSL (insipired by Cucumber)

This post was inspired by The Training Wheels Came Off by Aslak Hellesøy, author of The Cucumber Book. TL;DR – Use a Domain Specific (testing) API to implement your Domain Specific Language That article describes the motivation behind removing web_steps.rb … Continue reading

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