Cutting edge vs Legacy Systems
Recently, a colleague asked me, if I still enjoy being in the new team. I immediately answered that with an honest “yes”, although we both agree that our pr...
How I deal with TODO comments in code
„TODOs are jobs that the programmer thinks should be done, but for some reason can’t do at the moment. It might be a reminder to delete a deprecated featu...
Making a dent in the universe - as a Java Developer?!
A couple of days ago, I finished reading „Rework“ by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The book is about their enterprise 37 signals and mainly addr...
Extending Java Enums
I often stumble over ideas that are cool in some way and that I would never have thought about it. One of those ideas is extending Java Enums. Often framewor...
Minimizing LOC as a metric
Since reading the biography of Steve Jobs, I more and more do agree with the idea of minimalization. Obviously, he had huge success by simply leaving out thi...
Two different architects. An observation.
This article is a report about some observations I made during my time in two different projects. Each of the projects had one architect which, in retrospect...
Six tipps for a successful start in a new project
After changing the company I work for, I became member of a new project team a couple of weeks ago. In this article I want to describe what tools I used and ...
Spying with Mockito - to call or not to call a method
The other day a weird feature of the testing library Mockito tricked me. Allthough the behavior is mentioned in the documentation, it can not be bad to po...
Migrating from ExtJS 3 to ExtJS 4
If a project lives long enough, it can be a good idea to update one part or the other. That way, new features can be used and the code base is up to date. D...