On Signing MacBooks
Today was the last day of this great JAOO Conference. Rickard, Emil and Irene had to leave. I’ll stay for two more days. Tomorrow some tutorials and squill hacking with Jevgeni .
I had some really great discussions over the last couple of days. The conference atmosphere is the best place to breed new ideas.
As a [...]
On Fearless Change – Tutorial @ QCon London 2008
This year’s qcon I decided to attend no technical tutorials but more development process oriented ones – i.e. Agile.
On Monday I was delighted to attend Lindas tutorial. It had a very personal touch, was very interactive. She presented the patterns for introducing new ideas into organizations using a play with us participants as actors. [...]
On Closures in Java
While reviewing Martin Fowlers upcoming DSL book I started thinking (again) about closures in Java and the current overly verbose syntax for Single Abstract Method Interfaces. And then there was the blog entry of Anders Norås about Deferred Execution and Kicker Methods, both relaying to the DSL stuff I just read.
So starting with a SAM [...]
On Implementation Patterns
Last week I finally got the book. Implementation Patterns from Kent Beck. I’ve been waiting for it for quite a while.
The first thing I noticed was that the book is actually Java Best Practice Pattterns, although it doesn’t mention in in its title.
The book is a part of the condensed knowledge of an experienced developer [...]
On Jequel @ CodeHaus
After two and a half weeks of waiting I finally got a CodeHaus project for
Jequel. There were some issues with the project registration, I had to file a JIRA issue.
Another problem was the hidden user account form page. So I had a project but no user login. But the ops sent me the information neccessary [...]
On Bricks And Mortar – A simple, Spring based Workflow Framework
In spring I was asked to support some maintenance people who had problems of cross checking oracle and informix databases for inaccurate data. I started writing a small Spring based workflow engine and was discouraged continuing to work on it.
But now the pain of the maintenance people has grown again and I polished the stuff [...]
On synchronizing documentation
While reading one of Rod Johnsons books (J2EE development without EJB) I thought about the extensive documentation the spring framework supplies and how accurate and up to date it is.
Most projects have a hard time keeping their documentation in sync with the code in production. When developing new features you don’t want to spend time [...]
On Jequel
After being harassed for so many years by more or less dynamic SQL statements of all sizes contained in harmless string variables and hitting hardest when not expected, I am now prepared to fight back.
After dealing with DSLs for quite a time theoretically by now one week ago I discussed some of the recurring problems [...]
On Tutorials@Jaoo
The tutorials I’ve been attending not only to learn or improve on the topic but also to get better on how to teach were quite diverse in quality.
The Java Performance Tuning
tutorial title was a bit misleading. It dealt mostly with a structured approach to any performance tuning task and which tools can support the [...]
On Jaoo, Conferences and People
Just returning from Aarhus contemplating on conferences and the people one meets there. As always it has been a pleasure being there and meeting all these interested and thoughtful people. Returning home always leaves a kind of sad feeling like leaving a family reunion. At no other time one has the possibility to talk to [...]
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