Everyone relishes the confidence of a having a backup plan if everything falls apart. For myself as a manager it was knowing I could always go back to development if something unexpected came up. After 10 years as a development manager, I got the unfortunate call to follow my director to an unannounced meeting first [...]
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As a new manager recruiting for the first time you’ll find HR will usually provide you with a job description template. You’ll read it, laugh at how generic it is, and then try to do a bit of modification. That’s a futile effort. (Though depending on the organization you may have to leave pretty [...] As a software manager and developer I’ve followed the gradual adoption of DSLs as a mainstream technique. I’ve worked with numerous DSLs including: Rails RSpec Easymock, Mockito Selenium Grails, GORM Rake Ant (as ugly as an XML DSL is) RSpec was a wonder at the time compared to JUnit 3 where I spent the [...] I was working with some clients recently when one of them leaned back in his chair and announced: “Well Paul’s leaving. I guess he finally got fed up.” The group of developers and sysadmins were disappointed at the news. They wondered why he decided to leave as it turned out he was a key champion [...] After an incredible hype cycle back in 2005 many organizations took the plunge. We were going to ride SOA into a new highly productive development environment. The idea was we’d build business services and then start composing applications on the fly based on these service components. The reasons for diving headfirst into SOA included: Gartner [...] I’ve been meaning to put together an example of all the Hamcrest assertions that have been added to JUnit 4 way back in 2007 now. My assumption based on a number of recent client engagements is that if unit testing is being done with JUnit the default is still to rely on assertEquals() as the [...] Everyone has that trunk of old junk tucked away in the attic. It’s almost spring and time to think about getting organized, tossing out old junk, and having a garage sale. Apache has managed to create an online concept of a software attic. Old open source projects that have outlived there useful lives can [...] The image above probably needs a bit of explanation. After having a lingering todo I finally made a donation and requested a Green Clean Code band from Uncle Bob Martin. I was at a talk of his at SD West 2005. At that point he pointed out a rubber band he was wearing that [...] Michael Feathers wrote a tough post recently on UI testing tools. The fact of the matter is that UI based testing should be used for UIs: that’s it. You should not be testing your full application end-to-end through a UI Testing tool. First of all, that sort of testing couples some of the most important [...] I came across a note of mine from last year on my baseline expectations for developers: All code is checked into source control on an hourly basis or at most daily. Every project has an automated build. (Maven, Ant) All projects are setup in continuous integration (Hudson) All code follows the current Java/Groovy coding [...] |
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