Programmer Remember your first programs? Your first Hello World? You will launch them from the command line and just print something. Over time your programs became more complex. You still printed a lot of stuff… Read More »Who is watching your logs?
I’ve always loved to read. As a small kid I was so eager to read more that I managed to read my school small library (took just 6 years!). By no coincidence I also got… Read More »My Top 6 Book Takeaways From 2016
Some time ago, my team was tasked to implement a form in an website. I do not remember exactly the functionality. What I do remember is how we approached the problem with our QA. Our… Read More »Flipping The Reversed Test Pyramid
Retrospection Time for a little reflection. What better time than the end of the year? More than an year ago I joined a small company with a strong engineering team. I have since been impressed by… Read More »Server Gardening
Cleaning up after your code is any activity you do to erase the trace of your code execution. Usually you do this to prevent a side effect that will affect execution of another piece of… Read More »Why you are cleaning after your code
What is this about? Want it or not, at some time your application will need to store something, somewhere. I have spend years working with different relational databases and more recently – few different type… Read More »To ORM or not to ORM – Introduction to jOOQ
A month ago I had the pleasure to go to one of our local Java User Group events – “jProfessionals: Java Day with Venkat”. It was a whole day packed with two talks and a… Read More »On writing (code) well
Forgive me Donald, for I have sinned. I deployed code. Code that I haven’t tried. We had an demo coming and I found a bug half an hour before the start. There was no time… Read More »All code must be executed
A story You join new software development team and are eager to learn about the project and make your first contribution. You spend most of your first day in meetings. After waaaay too much information… Read More »Revealing Code Intent With Tests
Few years ago I was part of small software team. The product was a desktop application that makes market simulations. Work was interesting and team was good. Our client preferred to give us work in… Read More »Quality Is Not A Project