Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

As developers, we're all responsible for writing code in one way or another. We write it ourselves or help others write it better. Either way, code gets written and we all move on. The rest of this short post will be focused on code reviews and what (I...

I admitedly don't have a lot of experience with the various AOP frameworks that have gained popularity over the past few years. I happened to be looking at Javassist a couple weeks back and noticed that they were in the process of developing a lightweight...

I've been working my way through Working Effectively with Legacy Code and one of their strategies for testing classes has particularly hit home. Situation You've fixed a bug in a method that lacks any test cases and is not easily incorporated into a...

There was an interesting post (by David Brady) included in the most recent dzone.com email that discussed the notion of Dishonest Programming. The last sentence does a decent job of summarizing the author's thoughts: Any time you feel yourself being...

The other night I sat down and spent some time playing around with Hadoop. What follows here is based on my brief understanding of the project and one nights worth of experience :) Hadoop is an Apache Lucene project that provides an open-source...

Saw another interesting post over on DZone aptly titled Changes Are Expensive, Damn Expensive. Now I agree more or less with the premise of the argument.  There will always be a cost associated with writing or releasing code, invariably this cost will...

In case you missed it Interface21, the company behind the popular Spring Framework, has re-branded itself and will henceforth be known as SpringSource. Same folks with a slightly less mysterious...

Branching and merging has always been one of the development gotchas regardless of the particular source control system. Take a typical scenario where you've found yourself working on a private branch that has forked off of a release branch which was...

More for personal interest than anything else but I've decided to re-write and open-source part of what I worked on for the last hack day. I've called it JDBCSpy and it's available over on Google Code.  It's worth noting that there are a couple of other...

Just wanted to report that we had our 4th hack day today and by all accounts it was another rousing success. It's been almost a year since our first hack day and it's been interesting to see the idea transition from a personal project to a company-wide...