A mini-review
The book already has stellar ratings on Amazon, JavaRanch and other select places, and after reading a few chapters, the only thing I can do is add this post on the praise list.
Why only a few chapters ? Well, you see, this is not exactly the type of book that you read from [...]
… then a software team is like an aquarium.
“Programming is Gardening, not Engineering” says Andy Hunt (of Pragmatic Programmer fame) in one of his well-known Artima conversations.
Inspired by such an interesting ‘organical’ comparison, it’s my metaphor of a software team which behaves quite like an aquarium. I assume not all my blog readers are aquaria [...]
Tomorrow is my last day here as a Senior … whatever. I've done a lot of Java development (Eclipse plugins, SWT/JFace, various components for our proprietary framework) and even some DB work (Sap/Oracle/PostgreSQL migration, benchmarking, testing), spiced with a little bit of API design and a healthy dose of documentation writing. It was a great [...]
As expected, more RCP-based commercial applications are seeing the light of day. XtremeJ has recently released (28th Sept) the XtremeJ Management Suite v3.0, a set of Java management tools for the developers and administrators to access, manage, and monitor the based services. This suite includes not one, but two Eclipse RCP-based tools, XtremeJ Operations Console [...]
Well, this is the very condensed version of Martin Fowler's latest approach to requirement creep. His idea is : (1) 'start by charging the double thus allowing a comfortable buffer for the project' then (2) 'accept all new requirements without charge, in the limits of the buffer', (3) 'explain and agree with the customer that [...]