
Nikos Maravitsas writes about What refactoring is and what it isn’t over at Java Code Geeks.
Sometimes a programmer will
come to me and explain that they...
1 replies - 5629 views - 04/18/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

We are proud to inform that we deployed a new version of explain.solr.pl, software for debugging and analyzing Solr queries. This version contains the...
0 replies - 3587 views - 04/18/12 by Marek Rogoziński in Articles

One of the comments my about my last blog Design Patterns, The Emperor’s New Clothes and Catch 22 was that “one of the most valuable things these...
0 replies - 2468 views - 04/14/12 by Roger Hughes in Articles

Sometimes concepts come along that make you excited to be in this industry. In software, the IDE concept has been fairly static for the last 10, maybe 15...
1 replies - 15289 views - 04/13/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

Our 2012 developer survey (PDF)
asked: “How do you find artifacts for your projects?” This question
might mean different things to different...
0 replies - 3409 views - 04/12/12 by Tim O'brien in Articles

I’ve had several conversations in email and with clients recently
that have all been about this question: “What do we do about our
infrastructure?”...
0 replies - 3566 views - 04/12/12 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

I’ve been progressing quite nicely along my Road to Maven, that was until today when I tried to take a detour.
My preferred way of launching a Java...
5 replies - 2091 views - 04/10/12 by Rob Gordon in Articles

Following is my grouping of tools that I have learned/used as a sysadmin
and DevOps dude at ThoughtWorks while maintaining our distributed
infrastructure,...
5 replies - 9173 views - 04/08/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Some interesting insider info was released this week about the Facebook deployment process. I've compiled a TL;DR version here in case you don't want to read...
0 replies - 14542 views - 04/06/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Everyone now and then we end up having to write a bunch of mapping
code and I quite like using IntelliJ’s ‘Replace’ option to do it but
always end up...
0 replies - 2820 views - 04/05/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

I have recently had a couple of interesting discussions with a
different people on twitter and “the real world” about the use of third
party...
7 replies - 5321 views - 04/05/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

When setting up a project with more code than fits one a piece of paper I like to have some code metrics around.
The purpose of that metrics is two...
2 replies - 3105 views - 04/05/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles

If you're running an open source project, and have trouble with bugs that are difficult to reproduce, then Chronon's latest announcement is what you've been...
1 replies - 4631 views - 04/04/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

With over 10 million downloads and 1
million users around the globe, BIRT is one of the most widely adopted business intelligence and
reporting...
0 replies - 7751 views - 04/01/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Most professional software developers these days understand the importance and value of writing and using unit tests. A nice summary of some of the oft-touted...
0 replies - 4412 views - 03/29/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles