SpringSource to stop providing maintenance releases for free

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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 ...

Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008

Wednesday, June 11th, 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 ...

Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008

Monday, June 9th, 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, ...

Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky joint venture

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

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 ...

A measurement of code quality I hadn’t heard of before

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

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Beautiful Code

Monday, December 17th, 2007

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 ...