Seriously, why develop an application that just works. Ignoring best practices, design patterns, clean code, unit tests, etc. is a sin. Just because an application works, doesn’t mean it’s maintainable, easily extensible, and READABLE. Clean…
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"New" Elevator Technology?
For all those at 1111 Fannin, we hate this “New Elevator Technology.” It may just be that we’re running on old algorithm, slow CPU, or maybe its just the slow elevators themselves. Whatever the case,…
"Moving Up."
Why is a Business Analyst considered a higher role than a Developer? BAs are the filter and mediator between the developers and clients. I still don’t understand how that makes them a “higher” position. There…
Development: WORST Practices.
A few rules I put on integration and committing code (SHOULD be obvious, right?): -Do an update, integrate, build-test-compile, then commit.-Only commit what compiles and passes tests.-If merges are not trivial, contact the other developer.-Your…
JSF, Spring, Hibernate and a Little Magic Dust.
We have an awesome chassis (framework, starting point, whatever you want to call it). It has completely isolated modules: web, services, dao, and model. I’ve always wanted to know how something like this can be…
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