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Software Development
How Friction Slows Us Down in Software Development
I once joined a project where running the “unit” tests took three and a half hours. As you may have…
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Desktop Java
JavaFX 2 XYCharts and Java 7 Features
One of my favorite features of JavaFX 2 is the standard charts it provides in its javafx.scene.chart package. This package…
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Core Java
One jar to rule them all
Trip down the memory lane Back in 1998, when I was a C/C++ developer, trying my hands on Java, a…
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Scala
Scala pattern matching: A Case for new thinking?
The 16th President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln once said: ‘As our case is new we must think and…
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Agile
Managing the Stream of Features in an Agile Program
One of the challenges in a program is how you manage the checkins, especially if you have continuous integration. I…
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Software Development
Jenkins Description Setter Plugin for Improving Continuous Delivery Visibility
In Continuous Delivery each build is potentially shippable. This fact implies among a lot of other things, to assign a…
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Scala
Dry parameter names
How often do you see code like this, especially when using dependency injection, single-responsibility principle, and other “good practices”? …
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DevOps
Good & Bad Patterns in Development and Operations
As part of my role at a new company I’ve been asked to provide feedback about structuring Dev & Ops…
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Enterprise Java
Running unit tests and integration tests separately with Maven Failsafe and TestNG
Recently for my new pet project I decided that I would like to have some tests executed during standard mvn…
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