Do you know the dysfunctional team? The team where nobody knows what the “business” wants. Communication Even though the team spends the majority of their time talking to each other, they don’t actually communicate. The Product Owner does not seem able to relay useful or timely information. The devs only talk to QA to say … Read more
Today we dig into Test Driven Development. After a brief intro to what TDD is we start exploring some of the reasons to do TDD.
If there is a hole in the ground, that you see people falling into, what do you do with it? Wait The easiest, and probably therefore the most common response is to just ignore the hole. Wait for somebody else to fill it in. It isn’t my job. I’m too focused on this other thing, … Read more
So you are hitting a legacy XML service in your brand-new Java app, and need to extract the useful information from the response. Because the service is legacy, and XML, it of course is not in a format you really want to replicate. Let’s take a look. XML Here is the XML document we will … Read more
Interview edition! This week we take a look at a good old interview question.
Information curation seems to be the Next Big Thing. Of course, information curation is not new by any means. What is it? What is “information curation”? Here, we will take it to mean simply collecting, summarizing, and updating bits of information. It can be thought of as a metadata library. We collect and curate information … Read more
Heap dumps are typically used to diagnose memory issues, such as memory leaks. That is not the only thing they are useful for though. Reports Most obviously, we can see what kinds of reports are offered right away. I’m using Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool here. Yourkit is also a great tool for analyzing heap dumps. … Read more
Small and quick. What is an Iteration? We may be familiar with this term from the Agile software development idiom. It basically stands for one pass over a thing. One iteration of a loop is one execution through the loop block. Likewise, in agile-speak, one iteration can be thought of as one execution over the … Read more
A mathematical construct having both direction and magnitude. Magnitude And Direction Magnitude in this scenario can be thought of as either a distance or an amount of effort. Direction is the common use. If you exert a lot of effort, but spread out across multiple directions, you end up not achieving very much. Even though … Read more