Common Errors in Whiteboard Job Interviews with UML Diagrams

There are two important differences between drawing a Unified Modeling Language Diagram in a design tool and depict a design…

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Findbugs Warnings By Sample

The FindBugs™ bug descriptions of the online documentation are concise and well written. Unfortunately, some parts of the descriptions are…

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Top 5 Reasons for Not Using JavaDoc in the Next Project

JavaDoc is an absolutely must for the development of frameworks and libraries which provide a public interface for others, e.g.…

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Product-Burndown-Charts and Sprint-Burndown-Charts in SCRUM Projects

Product-Backlog-Charts and Sprint-Backlog-Charts are used in almost all Agile approaches. In the following article the terminology of SCRUM is used,…

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Stupid Design Decisions (Part I)

Maybe you know the joke where a young software engineer goes into a bar, puts a green frog on top…

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The disastrous impact of IT Outsourcing to the Motivation and Results of Software Developers

IT Outsourcing (or the transfer of business functions to an external service provider) is a common practice in almost all…

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Lean IT fundamentals & principles

The roots of Lean IT are – as the name suggests – in Lean Management. The basic principles of Lean…

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Top 10 Things Every Software Engineer Should Know

Please take a second to look at our brand new Java Resource Collection. The following top ten list collects some…

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Spring 3 and Java EE 6 – An unfair and incomplete comparison

The first draft of this small article had the title ‘Spring & Java EE – Comparing Apples and Oranges’. During…

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