Sending email notifications from enterprise application is very common scenario. I know several methods to solve this puzzle, below you can find short summary. To send an email from the application at least SMTP server address must be configured. Because released application binary (e.g: WAR file) should be porta...
In this blog post you can find my general rules for implementing system using Domain Driven Design. Don’t use them blindly but it’s good starting point for DDD practitioners.
This document is a manual how to configure flexible development environment for Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Python - my primary set of tools. Even if the runtimes installation with apt-get seems to be a trivial task, there is limited control over installed version of the runtime. The goal is to configure environment ...
Git Flow is a mainstream process for branch per feature development. Git Flow is the best method I’ve found for managing project developed by small to medium project teams. Before you start reading this post you should read two mandatory lectures:
Have you considered what’s important for prospective employer? What’s the most valuable information source about your professional experience? How to document that you are an expert in software engineering? Below you can find some of my tricks: Write a blog, teaching is the best learning method :-) Write an ...
Virtual Disk Image (VDI) is a Virtual Box container format for guest hard disk. I found that VDI files on the host system grows over the time. If your VDI file on the host system is much bigger than used spaces on guest partition it is time for compaction:
From time to time, people ask me what code coverage by tests should be. Does 60% mean that project is healthy? Or maybe the goal should be 70% or 80%?
Distributed Concurrent Versions Systems (DCVSs) like Git or Mercurial has changed software delivery processes significantly. I would not want to go back to the mid ages of Subversion, and I’m able to convince almost any developer to use DCVS. Convincing managers is much more tough task. Below I collected some insigh...
The short list based on excellent Thomas Sundberg presentation.
During my career as J2EE and JEE software developer I have been trying to use pure JEE two o three times. And I decided to don’t repeat this exercise any more, it would be waste of my precious time. Below you can find short but quite comprehensive summary (based on Ilias Tsagklis):