Haiti Makes Emergency Appeal to Secretary Clinton

The government of Haiti is making an emergency appeal for foreign aid. Meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Haitian President Rene Preval said Haiti needs as much as $100 million to avoid widespread unrest and collapse. Preval also urged Clinton to drop the US policy of funneling aid to Haiti through non-governmental organizations instead of directly to the state. Some of the groups used US aid to support the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.

— Democracy Now

The Green Bar is My Friend

Kent Beck (the guy who created both JUnit and eXtreme Programming) is writing an extension to JUnit called JUnitMax.

In his JUnitMax blog, Beck recently wrote up an analysis of 100 person-hours of testing data. Where'd the data come from? From us! The company I work for gathers its unit testing data using an in-house-developed tool called DevCreek (one of my colleagues is the prime mover-and-shaker on that), and we've gathered some 250 million datapoints on JUnit testing. It's kinda cool to see how the data we're gathering can be used.