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    Stevey Can Rant.. I Cant

    Stevey’s Rant has been making the blogging rounds recently. Everyone and their aged and ailing mothers are talking about it including yours truly of course – not my mom though – with this post.  I like the rant of course along with the multitude. Who can resist reading contemptuous digs on Jeff Bezos or for [...]

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j2ee

Value Object Wizard (VOW)

  Launching the Value Object Wizard I have launched a project called Value Object Wizard in sourceforge. Please take a quick look and send me your comments. The details are in the home page.  

management

On Project Ramp ups

As I think back about all the failed projects that I had seen, I recognize one unifying feature about them. They all took too long to ramp up! I am not saying that they did not spend enough time on design or architecture. On the other hand, many of these failed projects spent an inordinate [...]

design

EDA and Incremental ETL

Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is a paradigm that I became familiar with when I was coding the earliest GUI components. The user interaction with a GUI application is modeled as a series of events that the application responds to.  There is an “infinite loop” of events which can potentially be engendered by user interactions with [...]

architecture

On Estimation & Agility

I was doing an estimation review recently. At first blush, I am instinctively uncomfortable about anything that requires a high degree of predictability in software development since that is going to be violated if you are ever intending to produce software that could be deemed useful by the ultimate consumers! It is exactly like doing the interiors of [...]

process

Bug Driven Development

Some time ago, I was exposed to a project which entered UAT with over a  thousand bugs. Obviously, the project itself is not the epitome of perfection. But the sheer number begs some fundamental questions about the assertion that the project was even deemed as code complete to enter into UAT.

java

Ecommerce & Java

I recently spoke at a Java conference in Bangalore where we discussed Java and E-commerce. This is becoming important with the advent of major e-commerce re-platforming efforts in some significantly large organizations. I am enclosing the deck that I had used in the meeting here. Ecommerce & Java Take a look!

optimization

On IoC containers & Stateful components
This entry is part 1 of 9 in the series optimization

If we elevate ourselves enough to sit on a figurative perch in the programming world and look down at the applications that are being developed, we realize that Inversion of Control (IoC) containers have most definitely come here to stay. You see more people than ever before proclaiming expertise in programming  ”Java with Springs” – [...]

OTHER ARTICLES

Mockery

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Spring AOP – Some Recommended Usages

Horizontal concerns & SRP We start with an object oriented tenet that states that one class must implement one and only ...

Infrastructure vs. Application – Layered Architecture

One of the first approaches to writing software, was to make the software application do everything that is required by ...

State Transition Machine

I know I haven't been posting too much and that has been breaking a few hearts. So to heal the ...

On Digesting XML

One of the earliest uses of XML was for the purpose of storing configuration. It was soon realized that XML ...

Multi Column Sorting in Java

  Link to code. Java provides a reasonable API for sorting. The Collections.sort() static method which has been modelled from C++ STL ...

Domain Model and Application Contracts

We had spoken before about the application contracts. As we define components, it is imperative that we spend sometime in ...

Organizing and Architecture..

As a practicing architect, I find that I have this obsessive compulsive thing about my applications and the way they ...

Class Dichotomy

In the beginning was the Class. The class had fields (or instance variables or members ) and methods (or messages ...

Solar Heating and Patterns..

I recently stayed at a hotel and suffered from what has become the ubiquitous problem of  "no hot water".  This ...

Bug Trends and some interesting SQL stuff

I was recently doing some interesting bug trends for one of the projects that I am managing.  The idea was ...

Refactoring, Evolutionary Design & YAGNI

Most programmers practice it. Yet they don't realize its true impact. I am talking about evolutionary design. I had always ...

SEPG

Recently, I have been very involved in hiring for and growing our Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG). Thus ...

Yahoo & Microsoft – The Search (for the best alliance ??) is over??

It is amazing that within a few hours of my talking about the unwieldiness of big companies, there was ...

IOC, AOP – 101

I had given a keynote in a conference sometime ago, about the Spring framework. It constituted a presentation on the ...

On Modularization

Modularization is one of the most important and unfortunately one of the most often ignored features of software development. ...