About David Green
David Green is a developer and aspiring software craftsman. He has been programming for 20 years but only getting paid to do it for the last 10; in that time he has worked for a variety of companies from small start-ups to global enterprises.
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Choosing a Programming Language
What programming language to use is probably the single biggest technical decision facing a project. That one decision, affects every one that follows – from the frameworks and libraries ...
Enterprise class Java code
There’s a natural instinct to assume that everybody else’s code is an untidy, undisciplined mess. But, if we look objectively, some people genuinely are able to write well crafted ...
Shame driven development
I always aspire to write well-crafted code. During my day job, where all production code is paired on, I think our quality is pretty high. But it’s amazing how easy you forgive yourself ...
Growing hairy software, guided by tests
Software grows organically. One line at a time, one change at a time. These changes soon add up. In an ideal world, they add up to a coherent architecture with an intention revealing ...
Enough whitespace already
In most sensible languages the compiler ignores whitespace; it’s only there to help humans understand the code. The trouble is, without automated checking of whitespace it’s very ...
Dealing with technical debt
We’re drowning in technical debt. We have a mountain to climb and don’t really know where to start. Sound familiar? For many of us working on legacy code bases this is the day-to-day ...
Code coverage with unit & integration tests
On a pet project recently I set out to build automated UI (integration) tests as well as the normal unit tests. I wanted to get all of this integrated into my maven build, with code ...
If I had more time I would have written less code
In a a blatant rip-off of the T.S Eliot quote: “if I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter” I had a thought the other day, perhaps: If I had more time, I would have ...
Rich Domain Model with Guice
The anaemic domain model is a really common anti-pattern. In the world of ORM & DI frameworks we naturally seem to find ourselves with an ORM-managed “domain” that is all data ...
