Agile and Programming
Oct 31 2007
I have a strong aversion to custom build steps and generation of code. I do have to do it sometimes, but I don’t like it. If I generate a WAR for my application I should not need to generate a new one for each environment I need to deploy it in. Joris Kuipers [...]
Oct 23 2007
Gavin King has read the post I pointed to in Extraordinarily typesafe and points out how new features in the Java world are giving us a lot of new possibilities in a type safe way.
I am slowly coming to my senses seeing how much benefit newer features like generics, static imports and annotations are bringing [...]
Oct 23 2007
Mar Levison has some experiences and links to tools here.
Oct 23 2007
When we started doing Scrum many of us was quite inexperienced and we didn’t really know how shorter or longer iterations would affect us. As Mike Cohn acknowledges in this article an important driver when choosing iteration lengths is how you wish to handle change. Basically start out short, and try longer if that works [...]
Oct 18 2007
I like my type safety. It gives me a nice feeling of comfort knowing that the compiler will tell me what to put in, and beat me up if I do something stupid. Maybe that’s why I don’t really feel comfortable in Rubyland, maybe I will some day.
Anyway, Kevin Bourillion has a good post [...]
Oct 02 2007
Ted Neward was contacted by a reader with some questions regarding architects and their role. You can find the excellent answer here.
Oct 02 2007
Johannes Brodwall is spearheading some really interesting stuff in the financial sector in Norway. They are going lightweight and using Jetty as a container for highly critical business systems. Read a blog about their environment here. I’m also looking forward to his promised posts on the organizational side of things.
Oct 02 2007
Agile should push us into delivering the smallest part first and put it into production, but it is easy to forget. Especially working with replacing legacy systems it is easy to end up with a project path that aims too high. Martin Fowler has a nice example of how a really simplistic approach can be [...]
Oct 02 2007
Ferris points to a new module in Spring 2.1 for testing. As he points out it seems to help with some of the shortcomings of JUnit, and help you with wiring etc. related to Spring. Looks promising, and would probably resolve a couple of things in our tests better too. Check out the docs here.