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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
This week we dig into some differences between versions of TopLink and EclipseLink.
I was recently looking at an example that had provided a VirtualBox VM image with “all the stuff” packed into it to work out of the box. I didn’t want to muck around much with VirtualBox, since I already have Docker working fine on my Mac. So I had to build up an Ubuntu image … Read more
One of the big tenants of Domain Driven Design is “Ubiquitous Language”. This means that all the shareholders of the system a shared language. Product, Development, QA, Support, etc. all have a shared dictionary and language. Existing Language When Domain Driven Design is being kicked off on an existing project, this becomes a process of … Read more
More in-depth with FizzBuzz, adding the ability for a user to specify alternate replacement schemes.
We have been struggling a bit lately on figuring out how best to capture dialog. How much dialog do we need to capture? Is solidifying a decision enough, or do we need to include all the surrounding dialogs and contexts with that decision? Will people in the future actually care one way or another? Decision … Read more
What is inherent in your system? Architecture We quite often think about the attributes of the system, the “-ilities” of the system, as those things that are inherent in the system. We architect the system to have certain attributes. The system is observable, or agile, or scalable, or any combination of the “-ilities”. These of … Read more
I struggle quite often with how much code to actually abstract in a build pipeline. We use Jenkins Pipelines for our builds, with a Jenkinsfile in each project to control its build. We also have a few different versions of pipeline Libraries for helping out with the builds. All in the Jenkinsfile One obvious way … Read more