Lately I was assigned a task which involved something that a unit test seemed to be able to solve, but later it turned out to be way more complex than that. Almost a third of our codebase consists of POJOs … Read more
Recently I was musing about this topic and was trying to find reasons for this phenomenon.
When I was running my company I interviewed several developers for open positions, and interestingly there was an unspeakable imbalance in the gender ratio. Namely I can only recall two ladies I interviewed, out of about a hundred subjects.
I’m trying to look into the root cause for this matter.
Reading the post about useful regular expressions, remembered what my favourite solution is to one of the questions of the test we give to junior Java developers. The task is to write a method that takes a string as a … Read more
Something gave me the weird idea to try the new features of JAX-WS on a current project. The main idea was, to get rid of the code generators that must be ran whenever some minor change is done in the … Read more
This is the English version of a tale I’ve recently found in my archive mailbox from 2001. Looking at ongoing projects, I think it still has a point. Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a … Read more
We are starting up prototyping on a new project I’ve mentioned in this article. Our aim is to provide a proof-of-concept implementation of a simple off-line application running on the PDA’s we have.
In on of our major projects we store some of our business logic data as database metadata, but provide GUI interface for updates. Since clicking through the project’s GUI is much easier, than creating and verifying scripts for each tiny … Read more
I spent half a day today trying to see why a the web start application created and deployed using a simple build script didn’t work after I’ve created a new certificate as our previous was about to expire. First I … Read more
One of our current Customers have a very interesting requirement for an upcoming project. The nature of the project requires mobile clients and frequent (or even instant) database updates, but there is no guarantee to have constant connectivity. We more … Read more
Anthill is a small, easy to configure automatic build and publish environment. I don’t want to discuss the deployment and configuration of the tool itself, I’d rather highlight the main issues that we had on using Anthill to automatically build … Read more