Software Development
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Best approach to software development
Today, talking about doing a big design up-front (BDUF) sounds a bit ridiculous, right? Who would do that? That’s not…
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What makes parallel programming hard?
Multi-cores are here, and they are here to stay. Industry trends show that each individual core is likely to become…
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Fixing Bugs that can’t be Reproduced
There are bugs that can’t be reproduced, or at least not easily: intermittent and transient errors; bugs that disappear when…
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Enterprise SOAP Services in a Web 2.0 REST/JSON World
With the popularlity of JSON and other NoSQL data standard formats, the complexity and in some cases the plain verbosity…
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Bug Fixing – to Estimate, or not to Estimate, that is the question
According to Steve McConnell in Code Complete (data from 1975-1992) most bugs don’t take long to fix. About 85% of…
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Git newbie commands
If you’re new to Git you will recognize that some things work different compared to SVN or CVS based repositories.…
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Stumbling towards a better design
Some programs have a clear design and coding new features is quick and easy. Other programs are a patchwork quilt…
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10 Object Oriented Design principles for the Java programmer
Object Oriented Design Principles are core of OOPS programming but I have seen most of Java programmer chasing design patterns…
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Modelling Is Everything
I’m often asked, “What is the best way to learn about building high-performance systems”? There are many perfectly valid answers…
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