Testing your code with Spock

Spock is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications.  Spock is: Extremely expressive Facilitates the Given /…

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When a REST Resource should get its own Address?

In a purist REST approach, all endpoints (except the starting endpoint) are opaque and their various details shouldn’t need to…

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Are you forgetting your Agile values?

A while back I wrote why sometimes Agile will fail.  In this post, I will focus on the specific misunderstandings…

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More Fail early – Java 8

Fail fast or Fail early is a software engineering concept that tries to prevent complex problems happening by stopping execution as…

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Outputting the given, when, then, Extending Spock

Spock is a Java testing framework, created in 2008 by Peter Niederwieser a software engineer with GradleWare, which facilitates amongst…

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CoderDojo, so what’s the point?

Initially I was skeptical of CoderDojo. Here’s another thing IT professionals are doing for free. Why isn’t there Economics Dojo,…

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Agile Databases

Any project following an Agile methodology will usually find itself releasing to production at least 15 – 20 times per…

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Immutable pointers – a pattern for modular design to help achieve microservices

Modular design has a lot of benefits, including: making it easier to predict the impacts from a change helping developers…

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Requirements in an Agile World

On a recent project, there was a pain point where Stories with unclear requirements were ending up with developers. Time…

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