Software Development
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Not doing Code Reviews? What’s your excuse?
All of us have known for a long time that code reviews find defects, and that reviews are cheaper and…
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Poor man’s approach in practice
One day we ran into problem when an application was randomly starting using more CPU resources as usual. It continued…
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Hate Java? You’re fighting the wrong battle.
One of the most interesting trends I’ve seen lately is the unpopularity of Java around blogs, DZone and others. It…
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Refactoring Hudson God Class
Jakub Holy, one of our JCG partners, has recently shared his experience at attempting to refactor Hudson, the main class…
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Why Automated Tests Boost Your Development Speed
Many critics against writing automated tests directly address the additional time that is needed for coding them, which alternatively could…
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Code quality matters to the customers. A lot.
Some people argue that the main taks of a developer is to deliever working, value-bringing software to the customer and…
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The simple Big-O Notation Post
Our JCG partner Brian Du Preez has posted an explanatory article on his blog, Zen in the art of IT, concerning…
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Performance Anxiety – on Performance Unpredictability, Its Measurement and Benchmarking
Joshua Bloch had a great talk called Performance Anxiety (30min, via Parleys slides also available ) at Devoxx 2010, the…
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Using FindBugs to produce substantially less buggy code
Some time ago a user of Java-monitor, the forum of our JCG partner, Kees Jan, spotted that his system was…
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