Ah the days of our lives as IT-workers. Action and adventures. Highs and lows. Sometimes the IT-business is not so bright and glamorous as you might think or you might think from those groovy job ads with nice stock photos. Actually quite often it is not. Now there are good things about it, especially the … more
In the raving mood of the previous blog post there is another thing I’d like to share. This is Java specific post, but the idea can be applied to other languages. I think even C++ although the code won’t be as clean as in Java in my opinion. That is a matter of opinion and … more
This post is not about transformers and the complexities of Galvatrons right hand transformer Cyclonus or anything else Decepticons related, sorry. Sonar for example calculates the cyclomatic complexity of the code. If you want to know more about cyclomatic complexity feel free to google it. I was not aware of the term until I came across … more
Using Sonar is a great tool and it helps to keep the code cleaner and hopefully less buggy. It can even help to change the way you write code as it has done for me. Little things that are violation to rules of compliance are things that I did not previously pay much attention to. For example … more
The book The Mythical Man-Month is a very interesting piece of work. It was originally published four years before I was born, but still today in 2015 it tells what is usually wrong with IT-projects. Although the technology has evolved and changed a lot in the past 40 years it seems to me that people … more
Decoupling and loosely coupled are two terms that I like. I see the advantages they give if you are willing to see the trouble to write decoupled or loosely coupled code. Yes its harder and more time consuming to write than the five minutes if else if piece. This blog post uses Spring Framework and … more
I found this great site on Java practices. One of the items in the page I found was something that I could not decide wether to agree or disagree. Here is the link. I did however got the inspiration to write something here after a break. Types in Java and why not in other languages … more
I did my first Java code back in 1999 (or perhaps it was 1998). In 2000 I worked at a smaller company doing Servlet based development. From October 2004 to end of 2006 I worked at another smaller company developing Java and I must say that this was really good experience, I learned a lot … more