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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2015. If it were a…
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Top Ten Agile Books 2015
Here are the top 10 agile books that all agile software developers should read this year, including some old classics that should be re-read regularly! Agile Product Management with Scrum Agile Estimating and Planning Scrum and Xp from the Trenches…
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,000 times in 2014. If it were a…
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A Better REST Exception Mapping Technique
The conventional REST Exception Mapper mechanism in JAX-RS means that exception mapping code is disconnected from the service code, so that developers have to hunt for some remote classes both to understand and to define exception mapping behaviour. It is…
Posted in Java
Connascence and Transformation Priority Premise
Just heard an interesting talk by Kevin Rutherford at Agile Manchester about connascence and how it can be used as a guide during the refactor part of the TDD cycle (red-green-refactor). “Connascence of value”, for example, means that the test code…
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Ascending Post Order for Category Pages in WordPress 2012
Took me a while to get this working. Requires a hosted version of WordPress; I don’t think this sort of thing is possible if you’re using a free WordPress. Edit the main wordpress query to set ascending order on category…
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White Space in Code
Does white space matter? You bet it does. Is it easy to define the rules for something as simple as when you should and should not insert a blank line? No. I’ve never written or read a concise and unambiguous…
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