I’ve been working for a major company as a lead developer for some time, and can’t fail to notice the trends of ignoring even the simplest and most basic “precautions” on any given project, whenever possible. Projects are always pushed for time either because it is really urgent, or more frequently, because it would cost… Read More Setting up a project
Being in the IT business for quite a while, I’ve came across quite a few project management methodologies, of which I found (IBM) Rational Unified Process (RUP) the most flexible and really universally useful. I’ve just recently (about fifteen minutes ago) found an upcoming rival to this methodology and that’s coming from the open source… Read More Open project management methodology ?
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 king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny… Read More The Parable of the Object Oriented Programmer and Breakfast
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 modification, our developers got lazy and we had to find a way to create SQL… Read More Quick and dirty way to create DB2 update scripts
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 suspected it was because I signed the application using SUN JDK 1.6, and it might… Read More How not to use Java key stores
Remember the push-puppets you had when you were a kid? These little puppets collapse instantly when you push the button on the base they stand, providing hours of quality entertainment to kids like myself. Now it has returned from exile and is back grouped up with new technology to provide hours of entertainment to IT… Read More DIY Push-puppet toy
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 or less have full control on the choice of tools to use for this application,… Read More Off-line SWT application
I just came around the Winstone servlet container (related to the Hudson CI server). The project itself is fairly interesting, but it’s the naming choice which got me completely amazed.. Winstone is the name of a rather large Jamaican man a friend of mine met one night, while he was out clubbing in the Roppongi… Read More The story behind a name..
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 and deploy our ongoing projects.