I made a schoolboy error. I ventured down the road named “Thinking your tools are broken instead of your code”. I haven’t done that in years. There’s nothing wrong with the Findbugs plugin for Maven. If you want to scan … Continue reading
I cannot seem to get onlyAnalyze working for my multi-module project: regardless of what package (or pattern) I set, maven-findbugs-plugin either parses everything or nothing and it doesn’t evaluate sub-packages as I’d expect from passing it packagename.*. To prove either … Continue reading
Hacking away at various clojure-related stuff lead me to start using Leiningen. “Lein” is a build tool similar to Maven (and interoperates in fact…) to help you concentrate on coding. At some point in the day’s coding I wanted to … Continue reading
I’m a hacker. Hackers like learning. Every year I try and learn a new programming language: it helps me to get better at thinking, I learn new ways of programming, it’s fun and I keep abreast with technology. In picking … Continue reading
Just some of my notes on looking over SOA related theory. What is “SOA”? Service Oriented Architecture is a means of exposing business services separately from their platform and codebase in order to provide local and/or remote invokation of said … Continue reading
Don’t sudo telinit 6 all willy-nilly in a terminal without thinking twice. I just restarted this server accidentally! Very ouch. I’ve decided to have this alias in my .bashrc: alias telinit=”echo Do you really want to telinit this server?!”
Don’t be evil [to our bottom line].
The Problem Do you have lack of consistency and understanding how your software is built? Does this equal varying degrees of success – both in each build and in changing or adding new features to it – and lack of … Continue reading
I use LaTeX to take notes, record TODO lists, the shopping and everything in between. Oftentimes, I’ll need to copy my notes to somewhere: a wiki, this blog, or to put in an email. It’s at this point I need … Continue reading
I strongly believe that if you want to build awesome software, then every aspect of it needs to be as good as you want the final product to be. It is often the case that aged software shops will have … Continue reading
