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Love-hate relationship with reflection, proxy objects and annotations in Java [2010-01-13 13:46:24]
"And so we wind up with very strange meta-language components that are impossible to discover doing tricky things that without proper documentationis impossible to understand."
Does working from home make you more productive? Yes (with data)! [2009-11-19 11:36:29]
As there were any doubt...
Definitions of tests [2008-10-22 15:28:10]
Unit tests prove that the code does what the developer's want it to do, i.e. there are no defects.
Acceptance tests determine that the code does what the customer wants it to do, i.e. the features are sufficient.
Exploratory tests (traditional QA) determine that the code doesn't do what the customer and engineers don't want it to do, i.e. there are no bugs.
Application Packaging Standard [2007-06-21 04:35:59]
Nice to see how they're reinventing J2EE applications and containers in PHP...
Annotation-abuse coming soon [2007-03-16 07:07:04]
They're abusing of them already... Annotations are the second worst feature of Java 5 after generics.
How'd this String get into my List?! [2007-03-13 09:27:13]
I'm fascinated and disgusted at the same time by Generics... One day I will really try Java Specifics for good.
REST and WS-* [2007-02-19 07:08:46]
Good discussion of REST in very simple terms
Mock Objects: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly [2007-02-16 08:16:40]
About Mocks and in which situations they aren't appropriate.
Effective Java Exceptions [2007-01-14 13:05:33]
Good article on dealing with Java exceptions and designing them into an API, I like the distinction between "contingency" and "fault".
The S stands for Simple [2006-11-17 04:05:00]
Humorous and absolutely true dialog on the idiocy that's SOAP
Humbled by Java Generics [2006-11-02 08:50:12]
Why the generics syntax is so lame? Didn't C++ teach us something?
The Nature of Lisp [2006-06-23 04:40:15]
I can look at Lisp code for ages and still puke on the syntax. Now I understand why I have the same problem with XML.
Easy Programming [2006-05-18 10:53:28]
So, do I add an editing interface to this blog software?
How to make good use of version control software beyond storing source code [2006-05-18 10:53:17]
Every company should store the specification documents in version control, and not pass around bloated Word documents. I'd love to put a $Log: $ keyword in a Word doc, but the Open XML file format won't be coming for a while.