The lepidopterist’s curse: Playing with java.time

Pop quiz: What will be the output of this little program?                  …

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The madness of layered architecture

I once visited a team that had fifteen layers in their code. That is: If you wanted to display some…

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The economics of reuse

If need the same functionality in two projects, you should reuse code between them, right? Or should you? For as…

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Estimation by stuffing things into boxes

I’ve started using an approach for software project estimation that so far is proving to be fairly transparent, quick and…

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Why I stopped using Spring

My post on DZone about Humble Architects sparked somewhat of a controversy, especially around my disparaing comments regarding Spring and…

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Can we learn to restrict our work to a budget?

I’ve previously talked about the idea of shifting from estimates to budgets. The fundamental point of this article is that…

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Humble architects

Humility is not a very common trait with software architects. After having worked with a few awful architects and recently…

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Announcing EAXY: Making XML easier in Java

XML libraries in Java is a minefield. The amount of code required to manipulate and read XML is staggering, the…

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Micro-Scrum: A stamp-sized version of Scrum

“Show what you’ve done to someone who cares frequently” Are you working in the way you are because it’s a…

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