Links: 28-08-2007

• Good Management Can Work Miracles,


• Release Planning Wall - interesting thing. A copule of informations may be read from it so it is worth to make and use,


• Keystrokes are NOT Gold - a notice about a movement from traditional phased process to test driven development.

Links: 19-08-2007

• All Programmers are NOT Created Equal - is it true? I think it is, but there is some possibilty to change it.
  How? Work, read, think, work, read, think ...,


• Opera developer tools - recently I'm using Opera browser more often. Why? It is small, occupie less memory than other, quite fast and it's free. There are some cons like: some advanced feature made for other browser don't work.
  Because I'm web developer also I need some web tools to work and education; above link is a promise of good tools, good like this browser is,


• Jetty 6.x versus Tomcat 6.x - Jetty versus Tomcat. Which is better, when and why? Interesting discussion,


• Promesh.NET - an MVC Web Framework for .NET - a new MVC Web Framework for .NET,


• Manage test data for integration tests with Spring and DBUnit - an article about integration tests in Spring with use DBUnit,


• JavaBeans and Trail: JavaBeans - recently I've refresed my knowledge about JavaBeans so I review some sites and those links are most valuable in this matter,


• JavaDB and Apache Derby - Apache Derby is now integrated with JDK6 and is named JavaDB. I've been using for small projects various db. Always I have to install new one. But now I've got one db (java db) integrated with JDK. I think it's worth using in desktop applications, testing and sometimes in webapp,


• Always explain why - small thing but how important,


• Keep application logic and roles out of centralised security services - very important, but how often do You think about it?


• Effective enterprise architecture comes from a culture of simplicity - why do You write tests?


• Prioritise to maintain options.

Links: 18-08-2007

• PicFindr - "PicFindr searches the web for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially." If You want some free photos try it,
• Learning Guide: ADO.NET - several useful links about new ADO.NET Entity Framework,
• Conflicting Absolute Positions - article which describes creation of simple layout (header, left fixed-width scrolling pane, and right flexibile pane) . Interesting about it is it looks good on all main browsers,
• Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo - worth reading!!! it's about how to make an undo in Your web application,
• iconfinder - if You are looking for an icon? That's the answer :),
• TDD from starting from user stories - a top-down style - if You are a TDD zealot (or You would like to be) You have to read it and rethink thoroughly.

Links: 01-08-2007

• Web Testing and Debugging links - a few links about testing and debugging web pages.

Links: 29-07-2007

• Building A Software Team: Five ways to communicate better, Building A Development Team: Office Space, Building A Software Team: Five ways to hire the wrong person, Building a software team: Wrong! There I said it!, Building a software team: Start some traditions - five valuable notes about software teams.

Links: 28-07-2007

• epesi - it is an "lightweight PHP/AJAX based framework for development of database driven web applications". Seems to be quite interesting, so why not to try it?
• In defense of Design Patterns, Rethinking Design Patterns - notes about books "Desing Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", "A Pattern Language" and testability of code (how to improve it),
• Reflections on Java Reflection, Trail: The Reflection API, Java programming dynamics, Part 2: Introducing reflection - notes and tutorials about Java Reflection API and several examples.

Links: 27-07-2007

• What happened to object databases?, Debate: ODBMS sometimes a better alternative to O/R Mapping? - discussion about object databases and why or why not use them. OODBMS is quite young (since '95) and comparison it to RDBMS (which is quite old) is rather unfair. I've sometimes used OODBMS, but this was on my own (not in commercial world) and I think they are very intresting, so why not try to use them?,
• Top Ten Must Read Books for the Java Developer - worth reading this and worth reading all mentioned books. So let's read it :),
• Integrating Struts 2 + JSF + Facelets - simple way of integrating mentioned technologies,
• Dynamic and static languages are fighting again - this is distillation of interesting discussion about "fighting" between dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, PHP and other) and static languages (Java, C/C++/C# and other).

Links: 26-07-2007

• No excuse to not do unit testing, Unit testing critical for improving software quality, The Way of Testivus … or How to Complete Projects Ahead of Schedule - why unit testing is so important,
• Testing Will Challenge Your Conventions - You have to read it and thorougly rethinking it - it is very important,
• Agile Team Size - interesting distilation of discussion about size of team in agile methodologies. We can teach some valuable things from this. Worth reading!
• Code reuse highly overrated? - notice about value of existing code and why or why not reuse it.
  

Links: 25-07-2007

• Do Agile Methods Require Documentation? - short discussion about documentation in agile methodologies,
• The Art of Agile Development - a book about agile development. This book will be published in 2007 by O'Reilly and now it is written by Shane Warden and James Shore. We can observe process of writing this book and participate in it,
• JUnit 4.4 Released - new version of JUnit with minor improvments was release,
• Debunking myths: proxies impact performance - interesting note about proxy pattern, it's impact on performance in Spring and other (for example object-relational mappers) and about code weaving,
• Injecting into Servlets and undoing the stranglehold of web.xml - how to injecting into servlets and making webapps without web.xml,
• 5 Reasons why I think I will not use Spring - note against Spring. for me it is worth reading because we can see some lacks of Spring (or lacks of people who use Spring) and try to think how to avoid them in future,
• 10 mistakes to avoid in software development - worth reading and rethinking them.