XSL Transformation in Java: An Easy Way

XSL transformation (XSLT) is a powerful mechanism for converting one XML document into another. However, in Java, XML manipulations are…

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How to Cut Corners and Stay Cool

You have a task assigned to you, and you don’t like it. You are simply not in the mood. You…

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How to Be Honest and Keep a Customer

Most of our clients are rather surprised when we explain to them that they will have full access to the…

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You Do Need Independent Technical Reviews!

Do you have a team of brilliant and enthusiastic programmers? Of course! You’ve carefully chosen them from a hundred candidates!…

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How Immutability Helps

In a few recent posts, including “Getters/Setters. Evil. Period.”, “Objects Should Be Immutable”, and “Dependency Injection Containers are Code Polluters”,…

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What Does a Software Architect Do?

Do you have a software architect in your project? Do you need one? Well, most agile teams do not define…

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10 Hosted Continuous Integration Services for a Private Repository

Every project I’m working with starts with a setup of continuous integration pipeline. I’m a big fan of cloud services,…

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Continuous Integration is Dead

A few days ago, my article “Why Continuous Integration Doesn’t Work” was published at DevOps.com. Almost the same day I…

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Stop Chatting, Start Coding

The first principle of eXtremely Distributed Software Development (XDSD) states that “everyone gets paid for verified deliverables”. This literally means…

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