Time to Mingle?
I recently saw a demo of the Thoughtworks product to manage Agile IT projects called Mingle. I must admit that it did look quite impressive and fills a very large gap in the agile project management tool market. I have been road testing a number of products in this space for some time now, more [...]
Testing private classes in Java
When you’re doing test driven development you often run into the issue where you want to test package level classes and/or private/protected/package level methods on classes. So what do you do? Either you open up your design to make them testable or you use JUnitX. Given that I don’t think it is a good idea generally [...]
Eclipse is Good, IntelliJ is Better!
I have not done any serious Java programming for the last year as I’ve been busy with other stuff. Today I installed IntelliJIDEA Version 7.0 Miletone II. After 15 minutes of re-adjustment and getting use to the oh so heavy Java stack again (Spring, Hibernate, Web Frameworks, yada, yada, yada…), it was as if I [...]
No Fluff, Plenty Of Stuff
I attended the first European No Fluff, Just Stuff (NFJS)in London today and it was a hoot! Great food. Great people. And plenty of technology around dynamic languages, functional programming, rich internet applications, agile techniques, yada, yada, yada… Thanks to Wendy and crew of SkillsMatter for making it a really enjoyable experience.
Clearly, I have been spending a [...]
Year of the Ruby
Now, I wouldn’t call myself old-fashioned, but tradition is tradition. Every year I commit learning a new (programming) language. This year, is the Year of the Ruby!
I was in my hotel room last night and had 30 minutes to spare. So I googled ‘ruby’ and was not surprised to see that main ruby site http://www.ruby-lang.org is [...]
Agile Customers need Agile Partners
I’ve been looking for an “article” like this for a long time (thanks Seb). It’s funny that it pops up in the gaming industry, but then again gaming is a pretty fluid marketplace.
The article about a company called Remedy Entertainment from Finland that is the maker of Max Payne (and the forthcoming Alan Wake). Remedy are embracing the change [...]
…and Polish!
The heart of Cognifide lives in Poznan, Poland. I have been travelling regularly to Poznan for the last 12 months and have been getting by in the language. A lot of people have told me, “Polish Cleve, damned hard language!”, ”Oooo, I think only Hungarian is harder in Europe”, “Good luck mate, you’re gonna need it”, yada, [...]
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