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Software Development
Not All Optimization Is Premature
The other day the reddit community discarded my advice for switching from text-based to binary serialization formats. It was labeled…
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Career
How many Java developers are there in the world?
Oracle says it’s 9,000,000. Wikipedia claims it’s 10,000,000. And the guys from NumberOf.net seem to be the most precise –…
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Career
Interview Prep For Geeks
Failing an interview due to a lack of qualifications is forgivable, but it is tragic when highly qualified candidates do…
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Agile
Why Scrum Won
In the 1990s and early 2000s a number of different lightweight ‘agile’ development methods sprung up. Today a few shops…
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Core Java
Type-safe Empty Collections in Java
I have blogged before on the utility of the Java Collections class and have specifically blogged on Using Collections Methods…
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Software Development
Wasting time by saving memory
You might say that at my company, the hard ware is 10x more expensive, but it also likely you time…
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Software Development
Coding for the Changes You’ll Have to Make Next Month
One of the most difficult parts of software development is adapting to change. It’s a guarantee that the concepts, ideas,…
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Enterprise Java
How cool is integration testing with Spring and Hibernate
I am guilty of not writing integration testing (At least for database related transactions) up until now. So in order…
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Core Java
Working Efficiently with JUnit in Eclipse
Recently I was dragged into a discussion1 with some test infected2 fellows about how we use JUnit within the Eclipse…
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