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What I like and don’t like about Scala

This is a follow-up post to my last one, where I was wondering which language will be Java’s successor as mainstream language on the JVM. I also asked the same question on quora.com, where I am going to maintain my opinion on this topic and also hope to get some input from other people in [ READ MORE ]

Who will be Java’s successor?

ThoughtWorks’ technology radar suggested to start thinking about ‘Java end of life‘ in its January 2010 issue. In following issues of the same document they list several languages that strive to be Java’s successor on the JVM. In order to lure the Java community into their net all these languages promise to run on the [ READ MORE ]

Continuous Integration (CI) – the missing pieces

Continuous Integration (CI) has been around for a while now, and is part of most decent development environments these days. It is certainly mature enough to not give you an excuse any more for not using it. Yet there are a few features that I haven’t found in any CI tool I have used so [ READ MORE ]

Deployments should be non-events

The problem with “traditional” release management I say “traditional” release management for the lack of a better categorisation. What I mean by that is having separate phases (and teams) for development, system test, user acceptance test (UAT) and finally production. The problem is that it just takes too long after the developer commits his code [ READ MORE ]

The purpose of test-driven development (TDD)

Most test-driven development (TDD) advocates claim that TDD generates well designed code. I think this thesis is in essence true, but conceals some conditions and intermediate steps. The direct outcome of test-driven development is not a design, but testable code and tests that enable refactoring. Testable code Testable objects usually have their dependencies injected and [ READ MORE ]

Automatic hashcode method generation

When reading the book Implementation Patterns on the bus to work one morning I came across a section that talks about implementing the equals and hashcode methods in Java. I don’t know how often I have read this rule by now: “If you implement equals you also have to implement hashcode“. Otherwise you get into [ READ MORE ]

Java Build Server

Update [15.05.2010]: I finally had a chance to try out SecureCI, which is pretty much exactly what I described in this post. The guys from Coveros did a great job, so I suggest after reading this post you head over to their website, download SecureCI and give it a go. Thanks John for pointing this [ READ MORE ]

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