Dev in rio 2009

Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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Some good friends from globo.com (Guilherme) and myfreecomm (Henrique) have invited two speakers from the Caelum team to talk about Java at this year’s Dev in Rio. Guilherme and Henrique will start the event monday morning and after that me and Nico Steppat will talk about how new modern languages (either dynamic, functional, more or [...]

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When I am unable to TDD…

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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It has been a while since we started using unit tests (and other types of tests) in our projects. But test driven design has always been something that once in a while I feel unskilled enough to do from start!? Many people (including myself), for many reasons, that TDD is the way to go… but [...]

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To break or not to break? Java 7?

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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There is a short slide show to illustrate some thoughts. There will be better ones in the near future. When is the right timing to break compatibility of a public api regarding its previous versions? Well, in the open source communites there is a common sense that a library is allowed to cause some migration [...]

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small project + full time despair?

Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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as a friend pointed out: “if you use a full time scrum master (in a small team), you do not need a scrum master, you need a gun”… if you need too much to sort things out, someone should take control and change everything…

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"Tenso" – Coding while at 0% code coverage

Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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Two of the most typical consultant’s job are trying to save a failing project or implement new features and fix bugs within a project which code is not as clear or as good as one wishes. Uncle Bob mentions that if all checked in code is a little better than the code which was checked [...]

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