Just don’t do itInstead evolveMany (99.99%) of developers continually insist that whichever application they work on needs a rewrite. As in scratch everything, redesign the architecture and technology choices and rewrite every component because the current choice and...
Read MoreMost of the bugs that you find or are reported to you in java applications are NullPointerExceptions [1]. NPE are rife in the beginn...
A different post than my normal rambling: Our beautiful baby daughter was recently born, and is in the middle of breastfeeding. And...
Ps. This is not directly regarding the latest 11.04 Natty release with the infamous Unity UI. (As of 03.05.2011) I am on 10.04 Lucid...
Should a development team/department have a required reading list?A list containing books (articles etc) that each member should rea...
In a recent project the tasks were always delegated and pointless deadlines set on everything. This seems so counter productive and ...
Realising more every day that IRC is essential for distributed teams.IMs (MSN, Google Talk, Communicator, etc), Skype & Live Meetin...
Think Ill replace my photo with my football. It is very dear to me, so it must represent me.Will you first try to work out if you r...
I recently read the Groovy for Domain-Specific-Languages book by Fergal Dearle. The book essentially covers what Groovy is, what DSL...
With modern day communications and old, the proliferation of open plan offices and persistence of micro management I wonder if compa...
