Jakub Holy

Jakub is an experienced Java[EE] developer working for a lean & agile consultancy in Norway. He is interested in code quality, developer productivity, testing, and in how to make projects succeed.

Enterprise Java
Jakub HolySeptember 23rd, 2012
4 314
VisualVM: Monitoring Remote JVM Over SSH (JMX Or Not)
VisualVM is a great tool for monitoring JVM (5.0+) regarding memory usage, threads, GC, MBeans etc. Let’s see how to…
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Software Development
Jakub HolySeptember 18th, 2012
1 72
Programming Like Kent Beck
Three of us, namely Stig, Krzysztof, and Jakub, have had the pleasure of spending a week with Kent Beck during…
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Software Development
Jakub HolySeptember 11th, 2012
0 40
Help, My Code Isn’t Testable! Do I Need to Fix the Design?
Our code is often untestable because there is no easy way to “sense1” the results in a good way and…
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DevOps
Jakub HolyAugust 20th, 2012
0 62
Introduction to Puppet For Vagrant Users
I couldn’t find any good, brief, practical introduction into Puppet that gives you basic working knowledge in minimal time, so…
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DevOps
Jakub HolyJune 26th, 2012
0 39
Serving Files with Puppet Standalone in Vagrant
If you use Puppet in the client-server mode to configure your production environment then you might want to be able…
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Enterprise Java
Jakub HolyJune 23rd, 2012
1 171
JBoss AS 7: Custom Login Modules
JBoss AS 7 is neat but the documentation is still quite lacking (and error messages not as useful as they…
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Groovy
Jakub HolyApril 5th, 2012
1 52
Exposing Functionality Over HTTP with Groovy and Ultra-Lightweight HTTP Servers
I needed a quick and simple way to enable some users to query a table and figured out that the…
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Enterprise Java
Jakub HolyDecember 12th, 2011
0 62
Getting Started with Amazon Web Services and Fully Automated Resource Provisioning in 15 Minutes
While waiting for a new project, I wanted to learn something useful. And because on many projects we need to…
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Software Development
Jakub HolyNovember 30th, 2011
0 372
Principles for Creating Maintainable and Evolvable Tests
Having [automated] unit/integration/functional/… tests is great but it is too easy for them to become a hindrance, making any change…
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