I woke up this morning and I was Agile. We are all Agile now. Or we are gonna become Agile. Soon. No doubt about it. It is an order. And orders are not to be discussed, just executed.
The Enterprise goes Agile! With the elegance of the huge battleship being pulled across a desert between oceans [...]
Filed under: Humor, Opinions, Software Development by Daniel Pietraru
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Every once in a while I interview a new computer science graduate for a developer position. I prefer to ask the kind of questions that will let me see how they think about programming, if they think for themselves and if they are passionate about it.
Usually when I get to object oriented programming and I [...]
Filed under: Opinions, Software Design by Daniel Pietraru
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Lately I seem to find everywhere lots of articles about the imminent dismissal of Java and its replacement with the scripting language of the day or sometimes with other compiled languages.
No, that is not gonna happen. Java is gonna die eventually of old age many many years from now.
I will share the reasoning behind my [...]
Filed under: Java Language, Opinions, Scripting by Daniel Pietraru
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Designing the error path in the code is not the most entertaining part of a programmer’s job. We are focused on coding the solution, the success path, and the damn exceptions stand in the way demanding to be handled. What makes it even harder and murkier is the lack of well established rules for what [...]
Filed under: Java Exceptions, Java Language, Opinions, Software Design by Daniel Pietraru
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While developing complex systems lots of failure situations require handling and without proper planning chaos can conquer your code.
A number of simple principles can create order and reduce complexity. And the result can be real software quality.
Filed under: Java Exceptions, Java Language, Opinions, Software Design by Daniel Pietraru
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