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Build your own Java stopwatch

After implementing some algorithms for record linkage, I found myself in the need to optimized the code for speed.Premature optimization I'm a strict follower...

12 replies - 6517 views - 09/10/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Fixing Bugs – There’s No Substitute for Experience

We've all heard that the only way to get good at fixing bugs in through experience – the school of hard knocks. Experienced programmers aren’t afraid...

1 replies - 8073 views - 09/08/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Best Quote So Far from Agile 2012

If you’re curious what is happening this week, the entire LeadingAgile team is here in Dallas, Texas at Agile 2012.  Dennis and Mike are presenting...

0 replies - 3516 views - 08/16/12 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

Flyway 1.7 Released: Multiple locations, Spring now optional, improved JBoss, WebLogic & OSGi support

  Flyway 1.7 is fresh out of the oven!The highlights of this release are:Support for multiple locations to load migrations fromSpring dependency is now...

0 replies - 2981 views - 07/10/12 by Axel Fontaine in Announcements

Domain Driven Automation

AbstractDevelop a database web app with a polished User Interface and complex, multi-table business logic with no code, just 15 annotations?  Impossible?? But...

0 replies - 7916 views - 07/06/12 by Val Huber in Articles

The Art of War: How it Applies to Software

In our modern world, software is of vital importance to your organization.   If you can build software consistently and reliably you will gain a tremendous...

0 replies - 741 views - 06/17/12 by Dalip Mahal in News

5 Common Antipatterns in Software Project Management

Overplanning/analysis/meetings: Some companies or project teams falls into error of spending time for the project planning /analysis/meetings much more...

0 replies - 10252 views - 06/13/12 by Cagdas Basaraner in Articles

ThOR - Open source object recorder for unit testing

The ThOR project is an API that enables developers to record the state or behavior of live Java objects for playback during unit testing.  Recordings take the...

0 replies - 1112 views - 06/05/12 by Matt Avery in Announcements

Continuous Delivery vs. Traditional Agile

In working with development teams at organizations which are adopting Continuous Delivery, I have found there can be friction over practices that many...

1 replies - 11696 views - 05/09/12 by Kief Morris in Articles

Unit and Integration Tests With Maven and JUnit Categories

IntroductionThis example shows how to split unit and integration tests using Maven and JUnit categories. It is especially useful for existing test suites and...

0 replies - 6903 views - 05/08/12 by John Dobie in Articles

Unit and Integration Tests With Maven and JUnit Categories

 This example shows how to split unit and integration tests using Maven and JUnit categories.It is especially useful for existing test suites and can be...

0 replies - 752 views - 05/02/12 by John Dobie in Announcements

Lean Tools: Seeing Waste

Every developer that has heard about the Lean movement knows that there are seven lean principles to use as a foundation for this approach in every industry -...

0 replies - 8501 views - 03/19/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

The 7 habits of highly effective developers

The 7 habits of highly effective people is an influential and best-selling book which coined terms such as proactivitiy. I'm a developer by day, so I wondered...

0 replies - 44719 views - 02/21/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Kanban is the New Scrum

Maybe it’s all the time I spend with startups, but while I strongly value Scrum’s ideas behind self-organizing teams & continual feedback – I...

2 replies - 10896 views - 01/11/12 by Abby Fichtner in Articles

TDD for multithreaded applications

This article describes some practices for test-driving multithreaded and distributed applications written in Java. The example I worked on and we will use is a...

4 replies - 7572 views - 01/03/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles