Productivity Spotlight: Cloud-based Java Development with Zero Downtime using Exo IDE and JRebel
Exo IDE users can now directly integrate JRebel into their "development PaaS" to attain cloud-based Java development without... more »
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Effective Unit Testing: Patterns and Suggestions to ensure truly unit oriented test code
Unit testing can be fairly simple to implement with immeasurable value for both the customer and the implementing team. Unfortunately... more »
Your Next Java Web App: Less XML, No Long Restarts, Fewer Hassles
Heads up: Building your next Java web app doesn't have to suck. You no longer need three miles of XML to stitch your application... more »
Apache Hadoop: Decreasing Technical Debt through Refactoring
Technical Debt is worth nothing if no pragmatic action is taken into code, in order to control and tackle it. To illustrate the... more »
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I Don't Care About "Agile"
All ideas are great, until they are confronted with reality. The concept of Management By Objectives by Peter F. Drucker was great,... more »
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8 Things you should not be afraid of as a Developer
In Software development, you are often faced with certain problems. This Article describes some, and how to deal with them.
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Facing Technical Debt: How to not discourage developers?
Today is a great day. Everyone is now aware of the problem and truly believes that technical debt affects the velocity of teams. But when... more »
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Scrum in 5 Minutes
The goal of this blog entry is to explain the basic concepts of Scrum in less than five minutes. You learn how Scrum can help a team of... more »
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How to Control & Correct "On the Fly" Javascript Violations in Eclipse
Javascript is widely used in web projects. The language is very easy to use but harder to master which leads, unfortunatly, to misusage... more »
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The Technical Debt Report #4 is out (November, 2012)
TechDebt.org is the first collaborative & open benchmarking dashboard on Technical Debt and Software Quality. This is the fourth... more »
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Remember when Software Testing was Considered an Artform?
Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to attend a number of extremely interesting and mind-expanding conferences focusing on... more »
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Clean compareTo methods with Google Guava
A common task in object oriented programming is comparing two objects for the purpose of sorting. In Java the useful Comparable Interface... more »
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Top 5 reasons why you should consider Groovy and Grails for your enterprise software architecture right now
I’m so amazed when I see how so few companies are using Groovy and Grails right now, and are still using old stuff like Spring and... more »
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Best Must-Read Books for Software Engineers
Here are the CodeBuild selection of must-read software engineering books. Books are grouped according to their content with some description.
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Hothousing: New Concept or New Word?
Have you heard the term hothousing? Want to know what it is and how to run a session? When do you use this? What's the format like? What... more »
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Top 10 JavaCodeGeeks posts for 2012
This a compilation of the most popular posts on Java Code Geeks for this year. It includes articles ranging from Agile methodology to... more »
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Implementing the "Chrum" - daily stand up @ SoftwareMill
We're a fully distributed company and yet we still manage to keep the "being together" feeling. We started out by having the typical... more »
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Agile Ruined My Life
I read the reply to my comment on a popular hacker board with sadness.
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Inside the Air Force's 1 Billion Software Blunder
Here are three tips for orchestrating change in your organization and avoiding the type of deflating disaster the Air Force just faced.
Breaking Out of Your Shell as a Coder
Working on a software project after it has shipped for 1 or 2 years can be fun. But sometimes you feel like you need to do something a... more »
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How to Interview Users to Find Out What They REALLY Want
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It’s all well-and-good to suggest that developers, especially on Agile teams, work with end-users to find out what they want the software... more »
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Live Event: "Predictable Application Updates" with ZeroTurnaround founder Jevgeni Kabanov
Dear Community: Before jumping down my face with a fistful of angry comments :), I want to let you know that this is a practical tutorial... more »
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That’s Not Agile!?
Agile at the Enterprise Level is not about the two-week inspect and adapt cycle… it’s about small batches and flow.
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The difference between Test First and Test Driven Development
If you tend to fall into the "one-two-everything"-trap while doing TDD, this blog post might give you some perspective on what... more »
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