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 [...]
Mar 27 2009
On wednesday I did a talk at the Norwegian Java User Group about agile deployment. The slides (in norwegian) are available here as well as embedded on the bottom of this post.
From the comments and questions I got afterwards, I could see how I should have included more detail. That would have made it even [...]
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 [...]
Dec 01 2008
I read this post about Clover and using it to minimise the number of tests run. A nice idea, so I decided to have a go at it.
What it does is use the test-coverage that it was originally written to do, to figure out which tests exercise which classes. So when you change Class1 and [...]
Sep 18 2008
So JavaZone 2008 is over. Had a blast, and saw lots of cool stuff. It was a bit crowded some times, and a bit too many talks was full, but all in all good. Just a short summary for on the good stuff:
Heidi Arnesen Austlid on Open Source in the public sector – The government [...]
Aug 26 2008
All of us have felt the pain waiting for the web-container to reload after just a minor change to the code. Well, recently i came across JavaRebel from ZeroTurnaround and they seem have solved our problem! And if you, as most of us, enjoy Spring you’ll also enjoy their Spring plug-in to monitor your context-files.
As [...]
Mar 13 2008
I’m mostly doing batch these days, so I’m keeping an eye out for what’s happening with Spring Batch. It does have a lot of concepts that resemble what our home grown framework is built around, so I can relate to a lot of it. The same reason will also hopefully make us able to migrate [...]