Two Ways to Get the Most Out of Daily Stand-up Meetings

A daily stand-up meeting is an essential part of agile software development. It is a meeting which takes place at…

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Three Reasons Why I Like the Builder Pattern

There are three ways to create new objects in Java programming language: The telescoping constructor (anti)pattern The Javabeans pattern The…

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Three Reasons Why Human Skills Are Important for Software Developers

It is easy to think that being a good software developer requires only technical skills. After all, software developers spend…

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Using jOOQ with Spring: Code Generation

As we might remember from the first part of this tutorial, jOOQ states that jOOQ generates Java code from your…

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FindBugs Maven Plugin Tutorial

FindBugs is a static code analysis tool which identifies problems found from Java code. We can integrate FindBugs into our…

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Spring from the Trenches: Invoking a Secured Method from a Scheduled Job

Let’s assume that we have implemented a Spring powered application, and secured it by using the method security expressions of…

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Using jOOQ with Spring: Configuration

I have had my share of performance problems caused by ORMs. Although I have to admit that most of these…

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From Idea to Code: The Lifecycle of Agile Specifications

We have just started a new project to a customer who sells widgets. This customer is the leading widget provider…

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How to Start a Software Project as Fast as Possible

We started a new project last week, and I started to wonder what are the most important things to do…

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