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- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 26 Nov 2014
Codurance - Looking forward to 2015
One year ago Mash and I were thinking how great it would be to be surrounded by great craftsmen, work with good clients, mentor talented apprentices, and a have decent office. We thought to ourselves: “We don’t want a company with employees. We want a...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 10 Nov 2014
Not all managers are stupid
(The following story was a bit altered in order to keep it short(ish) and to protect the innocents) I still remember the day when our managers in a large organisation told us we should still go live after we reported a major problem a couple...
- By Samir Talwar
- Posted 09 Nov 2014
Too Many Cooks
Last week, Sandro and I flew to Bucharest to meet Alex and Adi Bolboaca, Aki Salmi and Peter Kofler. We didn't know what to expect: the agenda was to try a "hardcore coderetreat", in which the constraints would be incredibly difficult, but when you have...
- By Toby Retallick
- Posted 03 Oct 2014
A Very Quick Guide to Deploying Artifacts With Jenkins
Jenkins is an open-source continuous integration server. At Codurance, we use Jenkins to build and test projects to make sure everything is in order before handing over to the client. Both Amir and I have just recently started at Codurance as apprentices. This week, one...
- By Samir Talwar
- Posted 02 Oct 2014
Highly Strung
This blog post is way overdue. A couple of months ago, I wrote a talk entitled Highly Strung for the Virtual Java User Group (vJUG) on when and how to use strings in your code. Spoiler: don't. So this blog post is really just to...
- By Mashooq Badar
- Posted 27 Jul 2014
Tell don't ask
Tell don't ask we have all heard it. Yet it is one of the most violated principles. It is also one of the most important principles to follow if you want a design that is flexible to change. I have often heard people say, "......
- By Mashooq Badar
- Posted 18 Jul 2014
Queue Based Synchronisation
The first rule of using locks for thread synchronisation is, "Do NOT use them!". Recently I saw an implementation that made heavy use of locks to synchronise access to a shared cache between two threads. The overall approach is explained in the diagram below: Why...
- By Samir Talwar
- Posted 15 Jul 2014
Mob Programming, and the importance of fun at work
It's been a few weeks since SoCraTes UK 2014, and I've had some time to reflect on the event and my learning experiences. Today, I want to talk about the biggest things that stood out for me. Mind. Blown. The session that really blew my...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 10 Jul 2014
Google+ Sign-In with Scalatra
The requirements For one of our internal pet-projects at Codurance, we decided to have authentication and authorisation using Google+ Sign-in. Google+ Sign-In is able to authenticate anyone with a Google email account (gmail or business) using OAuth 2.0. However, we wanted to restrict the application...
- By Samir Talwar
- Posted 26 May 2014
A Software Craftsman Is
Someone who aspires to quality. Someone who considers the means as well as the ends. Alternatively, one who realises that everything has more than one outcome, and that as many of them as possible should be considered. Someone who does not build unnecessary things. Someone...
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