
There’s nothing wrong with Ant.
No, really! True, there’s some nasty Ant files out there. Perhaps
that’s because we often treat our build as a...
4 replies - 5608 views - 04/23/10 by Julian Simpson in News

In the final installment, I’m going to talk about how to share
configuration between developer level environments on through to
clustered or “stack”...
1 replies - 3186 views - 04/21/10 by Julian Simpson in News

Jared Spool talks about
'experience design', which involves a user's entire involvement in a
process, not just through a website, but also through the...
0 replies - 3031 views - 04/14/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Given the good reception of the TDD
checklist, I've decided to put together a similar one with
suggestions for the generic class and interface design....
1 replies - 13722 views - 04/14/10 by Giorgio Sironi in News

Performance metrics are important. At school, in
sports, and in the arts, people want to know how well they are doing.
They get grades for their knowledge...
2 replies - 3251 views - 04/09/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

(part one
and two)
In this installment, I’m going to cover the configuration storage
mechanism for this separate configuration jar...
0 replies - 2881 views - 04/07/10 by Julian Simpson in News

A senior staff engineer at Oracle who worked as the lead developer for the increasingly popular Hudson Continuous Integration system said goodbye to his...
4 replies - 10985 views - 04/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

If you write user stories, it is very likely that you have been
using the "As a... I want... So That..." stanza. What you might also
have found...
2 replies - 7819 views - 04/06/10 by Serge Beaumont in News

Vim and other vi editors can make developers super productive if they know some of the key tips and tricks to using them. vi has a lot of power and depth,...
0 replies - 19365 views - 04/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Is Maven agile? Here’s my half-assed reasons why:
agile methodologies can uncover issues in your organisation.
I’ve got a pet theory that Maven
will...
6 replies - 5251 views - 04/01/10 by Julian Simpson in News

The vulnerability analysis features in Klocwork's products were recently strengthened to align with industry and government best practices. Klocwork is a...
0 replies - 5813 views - 03/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

While pairing with Damian
we came across the fairly common situation where we'd written two
different tests – one to handle the positive case and one the...
2 replies - 4270 views - 03/24/10 by Mark Needham in News

At EclipseCon this week, Jason van Zyl, the founder of Sonatype and the Apache Maven project, is unveiling the first product in Maven Enterprise Suite, a...
1 replies - 10292 views - 03/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

A new open source web application security hole scanner is available from Google on the Google Code site. The tool, named Skipfish, is similar to Nmap and...
0 replies - 13125 views - 03/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

One of the longest running debates I’ve watched in the Maven
community over the years, is how to best support different
configurations for different...
1 replies - 4546 views - 03/18/10 by Julian Simpson in News