Dazed & Confused

We all know it happens. You start a project with a solid set of requirements, but they just keep changing. That’s why you plan for change. Fowler tackles this by ScopeLimbering.

Found this one too, while looking through the nominees.

I’m checking some of the essays nominated for Joel Spolskys edited collection of articles book. Found this one about keeping your code simple.

Jonathan Lehr seems like he is brewing on some excellent ideas. By using another abstraction layer he reduces code and enables reuse between frameworks.

Excellent article on the new Java5 locking libraries on DeveloperWorks.
Via java.no.

Excellent explanation and discussion of obfuscation.
Update: It seems my original link was just a copy of the orignial article. Updated now.

Terje Bjørgum has a good RUP and XP comparison and explanation here. It’s in Norwegian. There’s a similar comparison in english here.

As I wrote on thursday some people simply just ignore debuggers. Cedric has some excellent tips for debugging here.
Via The ServerSide.

Actually, I think many people don’t use them. We surely didn’t learn to use it at uni, and I still encounter many people that doesn’t use them. With the excellent debugger in Eclipse I am convinced I am a lot more productive than without. I guess they can be kind of complicated at first, but [...]

SUN has released a article describing EJB 2.1, the problems and what the solution would look like in EJB 3.0. Excellent hands on examples.
Via The ServerSide.