Lessons Learned in February 2017
This is what I learned in February 2017: I enhanced my transcript of Adrian Bolboacas code cast with System Rules by Stefan Birkner. The toolkit is able ...
Folder.listfiles() may produce nullpointerexception
Yesterday, I noticed a strange warning during a code review. IntelliJ IDEA warned me about this code: File folder = new File("path"); if(folder.listFiles() ...
No Database Tables Visible in IntelliJ IDEA
Yesterday, I finally found a solution of one of the most unnerving problems with IntelliJ IDEA. When connecting to my HSQLDB, I couldn’t see any tables. They...
Lessons Learned in January 2017
This is what I learned in January 2017: At one of our HackTalk meetings, I learned about how to use the Java WebStarter. Here is a protocol (in German). ...
Feedback via Sweets
A while ago, I conducted a full day workshop for my colleagues. In the middle of the day, I realized I forgot to decide which feedback technique to use at th...
How We do Estimation Meetings
Recently, my team changed the schedule for estimation meetings. I use this opportunity to explain how we manage estimating the user stories in our backlog. ...
Lessons Learned in December 2016
This is what I learned in December 2016: At the end of the year, I had to use some of my vacation days. That bought me time to do some of those projects ...
Writing Awesome Java Code Workshop
A couple of weeks ago, I gave another workshop for my colleagues in Braunschweig, Germany. The first thoughts for this workshop came to me months ago. I noti...
Lessons Learned in October and November 2016
This is what I learned in October and November 2016: As you may have noticed, this is a lessons learned from two months instead of one. Due to a pretty s...