Enterprise class Java code

There’s a natural instinct to assume that everybody else’s code is an untidy, undisciplined mess. But, if we look objectively,…

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Shame driven development

I always aspire to write well-crafted code. During my day job, where all production code is paired on, I think…

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Growing hairy software, guided by tests

Software grows organically. One line at a time, one change at a time. These changes soon add up. In an…

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Enough whitespace already

In most sensible languages the compiler ignores whitespace; it’s only there to help humans understand the code. The trouble is,…

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Dealing with technical debt

We’re drowning in technical debt. We have a mountain to climb and don’t really know where to start. Sound familiar?…

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Code coverage with unit & integration tests

On a pet project recently I set out to build automated UI (integration) tests as well as the normal unit…

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If I had more time I would have written less code

In a a blatant rip-off of the T.S Eliot quote: “if I had more time, I would have written a…

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Rich Domain Model with Guice

The anaemic domain model is a really common anti-pattern. In the world of ORM & DI frameworks we naturally seem…

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