Software Development
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Common excuses a Developer makes when a feature doesn’t work [And how to avoid them in the future]
I always feel that Developers should have an attitude for development, which I have detailed in the blog post Attitudes…
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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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This is Stuff: Cryptography & Theory 1: Meaning of Secure
Cryptography & Theory is series of blog posts on things I learned in coursera stanford online crypto class. The class contained…
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14 Code Refactoring smells you can easily sense and What you can do about it?
This post is specifically intended to Project Managers although developers and testers can also get reasonable inputs from this post.…
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Humble architects
Humility is not a very common trait with software architects. After having worked with a few awful architects and recently…
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Thoughts on Blueprint and Declarative Services: Dependency injection or Dependency management
I’ve been using the OSGi Blueprint for a couple of years now and I have been happy with it. Blueprint is…
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Architecting a Multi-tenant Application
A multi-tenant application is an application where a single running instance serves many customers. An alternative to multi-tenancy is managed…
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Why I never blame open source projects
Every now and then I get to read someone’s bad thought towards a given open-source framework. When I started programming…
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Deep Stack Traces Can be a Sign for Good Code Quality
The term “leaky abstractions” has been around for a while. Coining it is most often attributed to Joel Spolsky, who…
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