Is this possibly the latest Java community buzz? SpringSource Announces Enterprise Maintenance Policy. Mats Henricson asks What is SpringSource doing with its license? and while the SpringSource Enterprise Maintenance Policy FAQ states that there is no license change, the SpringSource Enterprise Maintenance Policy sure is a change. They summarize it quite consise themselves: After a… Continue reading SpringSource to stop providing maintenance releases for free
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Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008
Yesterday I participated in the Accelerated Agile workshop at Øresund Agile 2008. It was attended by both developers and non-developers. Some parts of the workshop were common for the two groups and others were separate. Me and another developer actually did both TDD and pair programming! BestBrains, the company that organized the workshop, had prepared… Continue reading Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008
Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008
Today, on the first day of Øresund Agile 2008, I attended the Agile Architecture workshop held by Jim Coplien. He is a really great speaker! Some things that stuck in my head: Don’t use TDD, it destroys architecture because it makes the programmer focus on individual methods, losing the bigger picture on the way Don’t… Continue reading Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008
Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky joint venture
Programming bloggers Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) and Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) plans to use the stackoverflow.com domain to provide a competitor to experts-exhange. It sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately their podcast had weird noises when I played it (in XMMS on Sun Solaris 10 — don’t ask), so it was too annoying for… Continue reading Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky joint venture
A measurement of code quality I hadn’t heard of before
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Beautiful Code
I’ve been reading Beautiful Code from time to time during the autumn. It’s mixed bag and I actually skipped some chapter that was too deep into maths for my taste. Chapter 22: A Spoonful of Sewage was an instant favorite; it is a a fascinating head-first dive into a bug hunt in Sun Solaris’ synchronization… Continue reading Beautiful Code