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The sleepy software bug.
Jun 18th
First thing this morning I got an email with ‘high’ priority. The subject was ‘The Learning Center seems to be down’. We’ve been having a lot of problems with the product that underlies our ‘Learning Center’ application lately (we’re currently making a major switch) so I thought it was one of the run-of-the-mill problems we knew exactly how to fix. How wrong I was. Before I explain the story, I should give you some background info…
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Small Code Differences
May 13th
I enjoyed this post about a scenario where code goes through an evolution based on different types of developers discovering it in succession and applying their own ’style and wisdom’ to it. The post itself was creative and interesting, but the coolest thing about it are the comments, in my opinion. People are getting downright crazy about it. It just shows how literal, logical, and nutty we software developers really are. To each his/her own!
Unit Testing: The proving grounds for the team
May 8th
After weeks of development a change in a fundamental aspect of the domain has surfaced. To outsiders (read: the business) this change may seem insignificant, but to people who write lines of code, it is understandably a relatively big issue.
Value Objects vs Tool/Framework Bean Req’s
May 8th
A recurring scenario is annoying me. The scenario is this: Create a value object, in the Domain-Driven Design sense, and use it in a Hibernate persisted domain model. Following the DDD style, a value object shouldn’t have a default constructor, because its state should be present upon it’s creation as arguments to its constructor. It should be immutable and have no setters for its state. This won’t work if you’re using any tools/frameworks that require default constructors on the objects in your domain model. Read the rest of this entry »
Project Breakdown in [Eclipse] Workspaces
Mar 19th
Yesterday, I was doing some refactoring on some code in Rational Application Developer (a derivative of eclipse) and I ended up creating a couple of new projects to house some of it. When I told my colleague he’d need to synchronize with CVS and pull down the new projects he expressed some concern about why I had created the new projects. It made me revisit why I actually did it.
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