Agile and Programming
Jul 08 2009
Wow, it’s been a while. If you’re interested in good links follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/anderssv . I usually update there these days.
My talk on “Agile deployment” got accepted for JavaZone this year! I’m extremely happy, but a bit scared too. I’ll be talking about rolling out changes in a controlled manner, and [...]
Jan 03 2009
If you are familiar with Ruby on Rails you know what Migrations are. The same thing can and should be done in Java, it’s just not that well known.
Why migrations? Because it enables you to automatically update any environment you have to the latest version. And this is done through source control closely tied to [...]
Jan 03 2009
Ferris sent me a message a little while back and asked if I had any input on handling databases, so it gave me a reason to sit down and try to write something about my experiences. I’m not too happy about the flow of these articles, but I figured it was better to get something [...]
Mar 03 2008
I was originally looking for a way to organize our db-scripts so we could do a full drop and recreate before running tests, or deploying a new version. One of the main disadvantages to this is that test data will get lost. By separating the scripts you can still maintain upgrade scripts for when you [...]