Entries from November 2009 ↓

This morning I woke up singing, like I do most mornings. There are so many things ahead of me and most of them I like to do. One of those things is going to work. I worked at Jayway, for five years, three years ago, and I recently came back. The reason I left was [...]

When you clone a git repository, everything is automatically setup to allow you to fetch, pull, push to and from the remote repository, origin. But what is really going on? git remote is configured with a few lines of configuration in the config file inside the .git/ directory. Here’s how it works: Create a new [...]

Spring Security is one of the basic building blocks I use pretty much every time I’m constructing a web application. It’s a very mature and incredibly powerful security framework, one of its main benefits being its versatility. There are hooks and plugs everywhere, allowing you to extend and combine basically any way you want. Now, [...]

I was attending the “The Productive Programmer: Mechanics” session, held by Neal Ford, at Oredev last week and I wanted to share one trick that will more or less force you to get faster when developing in Eclipse. The Eclipse plug-in MouseFeed, written by Andriy Palamarchuk, will repeatedly nag you with what keyboard shortcuts you [...]

Since I had plenty of time to read on my flights back and forth to OOPSLA, I managed to read through a few books. One of them was Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies by Tom DeMarco et al. Being the sceptic that I am, my attitude when starting to read this book was: “Yeah, I [...]

The panel of Øredev 2009 proved to be a great group of people ready to take the panel format further. As the moderator I wanted something other than your daddy’s discussion – something edgy or just plain edutainment. I certainly got what I asked The folks on the stage were: James Bach – Author of [...]

The analogy of software developers as craftsmen has become very popular. I don’t know where it started, but the first book I read about it was the excellent book The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas. I really liked this analogy, it seemed right. A few years later, Pete McBreen released the book [...]