Software Development
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Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors – 2011
The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a community developed dictionary for software weaknesses. It provides a unified, measurable set of…
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Failure Isolation and Recovery: Learning from High-Scale and Extreme-Scale Computing
While I have been building business-critical enterprise systems for a long time, I haven’t worked on high-scale cloud computing or…
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James Gosling’s Stance on Java: I Could Hardly Care Less
The following is a two minute audio clip of James Gosling talking about Java and the JVM at TSSJS 2011,…
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Lessons in Software Reliability
What does it take to build reliable and stable enterprise software? First, stop writing lousy code It’s unfortunate that few…
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Not doing Code Reviews? What’s your excuse?
All of us have known for a long time that code reviews find defects, and that reviews are cheaper and…
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Poor man’s approach in practice
One day we ran into problem when an application was randomly starting using more CPU resources as usual. It continued…
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Hate Java? You’re fighting the wrong battle.
One of the most interesting trends I’ve seen lately is the unpopularity of Java around blogs, DZone and others. It…
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Refactoring Hudson God Class
Jakub Holy, one of our JCG partners, has recently shared his experience at attempting to refactor Hudson, the main class…
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Why Automated Tests Boost Your Development Speed
Many critics against writing automated tests directly address the additional time that is needed for coding them, which alternatively could…
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