2018-09-22 14:19
A couple of weeks back I have reached out for help for my MSc thesis about leadership in organisations of different size. I have received 200+ responses overall, and 166 complete, usable res… Read More
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Always green. Full stop.
2018-03-26 18:18
For the past months I’ve been researching what characteristics an Agile Leader needs in companies of different sizes, for my MSc thesis. I’ve now reached the data collection phas… Read More
2017-07-05 18:22
I’ve been building a little home project for the past couple of months, just to experiment with programming languages and frameworks. During this time I managed to put together a simpl… Read More
2016-07-11 06:13
The other day I had to figure out a way to compare two different web services to see whether a subset of their output are equal or not. One of these services (let’s call it the legacy… Read More
2016-06-27 06:14
Quite some software engineers think that design patterns are some overly complicated, mythical, abstract things that bring no practical value to software development. This is unfortunat… Read More
2016-06-14 06:37
Once I heard a talk, where the presenter asked the audience how would they write hard to test code on purpose. People in the room were a bit shocked, as nobody would write bad code intentio… Read More
2016-05-30 06:05
Quite some software engineers think that design patterns are some overly complicated, mythical, abstract things that bring no practical value to software development. This is unfortunat… Read More
2016-05-09 06:25
For the past 2+ years, I’ve interviewed more than 150 people for different Java positions, from junior to senior+ levels. During these technical discussions, I’ve observed a… Read More
2016-05-01 19:17
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* This post is intended to be a 101 quickie for the less experienced.
* It does not provide new or innovative ways of solving a certain problem,
* just summarizes a topic the way I… Read More
2016-04-21 06:35
I’m writing this post after days of misery, reverse-engineering, github browsing and finding (sort of) clever ways to get yet one step closer to the goal mentioned in the title.
Before… Read More
2016-04-16 13:19
/**
* This post is intended to be a 101 quickie for the less experienced.
* It does not provide new or innovative ways of solving a certain problem,
* just summarizes a topic the way I see… Read More
2016-02-02 11:53
Today I’d like to share some hints on BigDecimals, how and when to use them, what to watch out for and how to avoid strange errors.
When to use them
I think this is the most… Read More
2015-12-18 17:28
I always feel uncomfortable when I encounter instances of certain classes in the codebase I’m working with. Perhaps uncomfortable is not the right word here; the whole situation is a h… Read More
2015-03-27 19:17
Some days ago I had to write a little client application to call a RESTful web service; my job was to upload some data, defined in terms of JSON, along with a picture (PNG format, but that d… Read More
2015-01-19 16:48
The other day I was working on a piece of legacy code, with old-fashioned xml based Spring injection. All of a sudden I found myself in a situation where I had to inject an enum, b… Read More
2015-01-13 21:00
A few weeks back I was contacted by Packt Publishing to review a relatively newly published book: Mockito essentials. Without any further talk, let’s see:
I tried to read the book &hell…Read More
2014-11-29 16:14
Some time ago I had written a post about different ways to deal with exceptions using JUnit. It’s time to augment that post with a truly great way to achieve the same result.
Let… Read More
2014-11-20 18:17
When I’m doing interviews, I like to ask the following question (provided that the candidate has real life experience with EJBs):
There are two stateless session beans, A and B. A has… Read More
2014-10-10 19:51
Today I’d like to talk about a not so well known design pattern. It is actually so little known, that people sometimes are using it without even knowing that they are implementing a pa… Read More
2014-08-21 18:34
Some weeks ago, I was contacted by Packt Publishing to write a review about the book above. Without any further introduction, let’s just jump in and see the pros and cons of this… Read More
2014-07-21 21:51
Basics
We’ve all learnt that good, object oriented design is based on some kind of layering of the concepts; one layer has a very well defined scope, like for example database acc… Read More
2014-05-25 15:38
I was interviewing a candidate the other day; we were talking about Spring, when I asked him if he preferred constructor or field injection. Typically people pick a side; either the first or… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today I would like to talk about Spring dependency injection when Collections are involved; as Spring treats these data structures in a rather strange way when used as beans. We, as alw… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“I hate Agile. It’s full of these pointless meetings like planning – which is a complete waste of time.” I’ve overheard a colleague of mine say this the other m… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Spring makes it possible to set application context and/or bean factory into any Spring bean (this is a key point; keep in mind that you cannot inject these object into POJOs). In order to d… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
High-tech companies (and other companies too) publish some indicator numbers from time to time. Those indicators can be very meaningful to shareholders, financial professionals, investors an… Read More
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