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- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 29 Jul 2013
My birthday wish list
Today is my birthday. Yay! And since today is all about me, I will choose what I want as a present. As a developer, here's what I want: I want developers to be empowered to do whatever they need to do to satisfy the real...
- By Mashooq Badar
- Posted 07 Feb 2013
Project Documentation
Our project has a number of places where we keep documentation. To name but a few we have a Wiki, Sharepoint Site, Jira etc. When I want to know something that is specific to my project the first place I look is my e-mail archive...
- By Mashooq Badar
- Posted 12 Jan 2013
Spring Integration based Dispatcher-Worker with Worker Queues
In the back-office world the central concept in most of the systems is one of a Trade. A Trade has many events (e.g. Inception, Amend, Novation, Termination). Generally events from different trades can be processed in parallel because they have no interdependencies, however, events from...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 18 Dec 2012
Screencast: Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code
In this screencast I take a small piece of legacy Java code that contains the most common problems found in much larger legacy code bases. The objective is to first write tests to understand what the code does and then refactor it to make it...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 10 Dec 2012
The Wrong Notion of Time
No one wakes up in the morning and say "Today I'm gonna screw up. Today I'm gonna piss my boss and all my team mates off writing the worst code I could possibly write". Well, there are always exceptions but normally no one does that....
- By Mashooq Badar
- Posted 21 Nov 2012
Speed Reading
It's not often you read a book that changes your perceptions. Speed Reading by Susan Norman/Jan Cisek is one of them. I've always loved reading books but had felt that I read very slow. According to the book reading has many types and you employ...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 11 Nov 2012
Testing legacy code with Golden Master
As a warm up for SCNA, the Chicago Software Craftsmanship Community ran a hands-on coding session where developers, working in pairs, should test and refactor some legacy code. For that they used the Gilded Rose kata. You can find links to versions in java, C#...
- By Mashooq Badar
- Posted 08 Sep 2012
The Spirit to Improve
This week in our weekly design committee, on of the developer demonstrated how to use the Saxon Injectors to create mock XQuery functions for unit testing. It's been one of the biggest problem with our use of XQuery and the developer solved it in his...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 15 Aug 2012
The best approach to software development
Today, talking about doing a big design up-front (BDUF) sounds a bit ridiculous, right? Who would do that? That's not craftsmanship, is it? However, in the past, that would be considered the norm. Writing requirement documents, drawing architectural and very low level detail diagrams was...
- By Mashooq Badar
- Posted 14 Aug 2012
Encouraging Collaboration via Design Committee
Agile process promotes the view that system design emerges and evolves throughout it's life. It is a result of continuos discussions and decisions by the teams. On large projects with multiple teams, the ideal of involving everyone in design discussion becomes very cumbersome. Even if...
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