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Who do we write code for?

Who do we write code for?

Recently, while reviewing some code, I came across the snippet below. Now a keen mind can spot many issues with this. The ones I am referring to are something specific and relevant to the business though. The code is supposed to fetch all active clients, loop through, get job specifications from some DataSources defined for those clients, build a config object and return those values to calling function so that those jobs can be fired. Interestingly DataSourceInstance, DataSourceOriginConfig and DataSourceJobConfig…

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Revolutionising Agile With Head-Stand-Ups

Revolutionising Agile With Head-Stand-Ups

So here’s a true story. I work with a normal sized team as per Agile/Scrum guidelines, about 8 people. We have our usual stand-ups every day, at about 10:30 in the morning. As a general rule, people have to join this meeting. Everyone speaks following the Scrum rules, just what is required: What I did, what I am going to do today and if I am blocked. And that’s it. Yet, our discussions diverge, others jump in to help whenever…

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Hello world, again! (Broken links)

Hello world, again! (Broken links)

I have moved by blog over from blogger to WordPress! As these two platforms are not exactly compatible,  old links are broken, please give me some time to fix them. I am working on it. How do I access the old blog pages? Meanwhile, you can: Try replacing the year and date between the domain and the actual blog you are looking for with link with ‘/blog/’. If you are logged in to WordPress, the blog may show you a…

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Experience: Introducing JMockit To The Team

Experience: Introducing JMockit To The Team

Like many codebases out there, our codebase at work had a backlog on unit & integration tests and it was high time we covered it up. So one fine day, it was decided that we shall no longer accept code without tests. Then the question of ‘how do we write tests’ came up. As one of the architects on the team I introduced the methodology of unit/integration testing and a mocking library (JMockit) to aid in cases where testing could…

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Participating In A 24 Hour Hackathon

Participating In A 24 Hour Hackathon

Just returned from a 24 hour hackathon, sleepy, red-eyed, tired, exhausted and yet writing this post. You know why? Because I skipped it the last time, and the time before, thinking I will do it the next day and that sleep was more important, but never did it. Not going to make the same mistake again. So here I am. For those who are unaware of what a hackathon is, it is an event where dreamy eyed people enter and…

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Jetbrains messed up our license: Jetbrains still rocks!

Jetbrains messed up our license: Jetbrains still rocks!

Jetbrains messed up our license: Jetbrains still rocks! It is story time today. We are a small startup, by small I mean like 4 people on the team and we established barely a couple months ago. It was time to start development and like all good Java developers depend on their IDE for their life, we did too. Too soon to go off-topic, but I wonder sometimes how large a program can I write without an IDE. There is no…

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Cinnamon Crashed, would you like to restart?

Cinnamon Crashed, would you like to restart?

I have been a fan of the Cinnamon DE for years. I like the way it looks and stays out of my way when I am not admiring it and actually doing something useful! But it is somewhat buggy. This is a quick post about the cinnamon crashes, basically a new reason for it to crash. I was faced with a common issue of cinnamon crashes, suggesting me to restart cinnamon, which when clicked yes resulted in another crash and…

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