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Thought Driven Development a Methodology of Abile Development 30 Sep 2008 | 08:11 am
Warning: This is a rant against TDD extremism! Sensitive TDD people better step out of this dark sleazy communist place right now! I used to believe in Agile Programming. I tried XP and Scrum. But at ...
Bad advice on exceptions from Joel 23 Aug 2008 | 09:01 pm
Starting from some comments on my exception handling series of articles I run into a couple of blogs pointing to this post on joelonsoftware.com. I think this is the worst advice on exception handling...
Software development dogmata – good practices gone bad 3 Aug 2008 | 06:56 am
Many practices in the software development world are widely accepted at some moment in time as the “true way”. The trouble starts when the “true way” is forced down the throats of people who need a “n...
How bad comments are born in your code 31 Jul 2008 | 08:12 am
Many programmers mention their support for “good” comments in the code. A significant percentage of all developers think the quality of the comments is one of the traits that separate good experienced...
Code review – The meaningless ritual 20 Jul 2008 | 11:34 am
Most of the time code reviews are a meaningless ritual. Everybody pays lip service to the importance of code reviews and a lot of people, especially in the management, are convinced that code reviews ...
StringBuffer vs. StringBuilder performance comparison 17 Jul 2008 | 03:18 am
Even if the StringBuilder was around for a while now, many people still use StringBuffer in single threaded applications. The main difference is stated in the StringBuffer comments: “As of release JDK...
The 10 minutes “Getting started with RMI” tutorial 15 Jul 2008 | 08:35 am
Since Java 5 working with RMI (Remote Method Invocation) is very easy. You don’t need the rmic compiler unless you work with legacy RMI clients. Now stubs are generated automatically at runtime. As a ...
36 steps to success as technical lead 8 Jul 2008 | 04:14 am
The “tech lead” role can be treacherous at times. While the name implies “leadership“, most of the times it doesn’t come with implied authority like a manager role for example. It often happens that t...
The Agile 800 Pounds Gorilla 24 Jun 2008 | 11:43 pm
I woke up this morning and I was Agile. We are all Agile now. Or we are gonna become Agile. Soon. No doubt about it. It is an order. And orders are not to be discussed, just executed. The Enterprise g...
No, inheritance is not the way to achieve code reuse! 24 Jun 2008 | 03:34 am
Every once in a while I interview a new computer science graduate for a developer position. I prefer to ask the kind of questions that will let me see how they think about programming, if they think f...
