Bart Bakker

Bart is a technologist who specializes in agile software development. He is passionate about creating working software that is easy to change and to maintain.

Core Java
Bart BakkerAugust 11th, 2014
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Java’s Volatile Modifier
A while ago I wrote a Java servlet Filter that loads configuration in its init function (based on a parameter…
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Core Java
Bart BakkerJuly 17th, 2014
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Java’s Volatile Modifier
A while ago I wrote a Java servlet Filter that loads configuration in its init function (based on a parameter from…
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Agile
Bart BakkerApril 7th, 2014
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How Agile is a Scrum team?
Most teams I meet today are agile. Or, so they proclaim to be. All of these teams do Scrum, and…
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Enterprise Java
Bart BakkerMarch 2nd, 2014
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Fast Remote Service Tests
Testing code that interacts with remote services is often pretty hard. There are a lot of tradeoffs that influence what…
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Agile
Bart BakkerFebruary 12th, 2014
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Code Katas
In this post I want to talk about code katas. Most of you have heard of code katas before, many…
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Software Development
Bart BakkerJanuary 29th, 2014
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Acceptance Test Driven Development
In this short series about acceptance testing I previously wrote about collaboration between testers and developers and how acceptance tests…
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Agile
Bart BakkerDecember 30th, 2013
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Acceptance Tests as Specifications
In my previous article about acceptance testing I wrote about how tools like FitNesse and Cucumber focus on collaboration between…
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Software Development
Bart BakkerDecember 4th, 2013
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Acceptance Testing: Blaming the Tools
About 5 years ago I was on a project to build a system for collateral management. The system was connected…
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Core Java
Bart BakkerNovember 15th, 2013
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Lambdas for Fluent and Stable APIs
A few weeks ago I wrote an introduction on Java 8 lambdas. In this introduction I explained what a lambda…
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