Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

Just reading Chris Sterlings recent post titled Clean Up, Clean Up, Everybody, Do Your Share and the following snippet on design debt caught my eye.
Have you ever been part of a legacy project where it seemed almost impossible to add the feature asked for because you weren’t sure what will break once it is added?

A [...]

Last Friday, GenoLogics hosted their third hack day (and 2nd of the year). As Cliff mentions on his blog, we had a few visitors. It’s far from the extravagant events that Yahoo! and Google have been putting on as of late, but the concept remains rare enough to warrant attention from local (and [...]

The Harvard University Gazette has posted a transcript of BillG’s commencement speech.
It carries an important and motivating message with some self-deprecating humour thrown in for good measure (see below :)).
Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause [...]

Just caught an interesting post come through JavaBlogs regarding Atlassian’s approach to providing additional context when logging errors in Confluence.
It brought something to my attention that was previously unknown, that is the Log4j mapped diagnostic contexts (not to be confused with the nested diagnostic contexts or NDCs). See the log4j wiki entry on NDCvsMDC.
Evidently [...]