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Why I love test-driven development
Here is a very good example why I am a big fan of TDD (test-driven development). Instead of writing a specification or a requirements document I wrote the following test case and let Eclipse create a few new classes for me. Then I wrote enough code to ... 		Apr 16, 2007
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Java stack for all purpose development
You can't know everything and have experience with any and all technologies that might be used to solve a given problem. Instead it is a good idea to limit yourself to a certain set and become in an expert in those. The deep knowledge you will gain wil... 		Mar 19, 2007
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Evaluating technologies for new product development
We are working on a new software product, which will be maintained over several iterations. Although we've created a small working prototype, we are still evaluating technologies we want to use or, as one might want to say, bet on. When you develop a p... 		Mar 11, 2007
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Starting to love EJB3 Hibernate Annotations
As our current project allows for some experimentation and adoption of recent technologies, we spent today with EJB3 Hibernate Annotations to get away from the XML configuration one used to create with Hibernate before. The annotations need to be plac... 		Mar 8, 2007
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Tapestry: first experiences
Together with Fidel, Caimito's new hire in Panama, I started to experiment with the component-based web framework Tapestry. We were inspired by Brian Sam-Bodden's book Beginning POJOs and Brian's personal recommendation of Tapestry. There are two type... 		Mar 4, 2007
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Presented at 4th Geek Fest Panama
This evening I enjoyed the forth Geek Fest Panama and contributed with a talk about the SCRUM methodology for agile development in Spanish (slides as PDF). After the presentations everybody started networking and talking about geeky stuff. I enjoyed v... 		Jan 31, 2007
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Most common mistake: start Swing applications off the right thread
While reading Improve Application Performance With SwingWorker in Java SE 6 from the Sun Developer Network I found that I made the most common mistake in Swing programming myself as well. All Java programs start with an initial thread out of the main(... 		Jan 24, 2007
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Smart brains in Panama
Over the last few months I made a unique experience here in Panama. I had the opportunity to train a team of Panamanian Junior Developers on the Scrum development process and the use of Spring/Hibernate/JMS... 		Jan 19, 2007
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Agile or ad hoc?
In the vast majority of cases where these phrases are used, agile has mistakingly been used to mean that the development process in use is ad hoc or even non-existant. It's not hard to get to the bottom of what people mean by agile, particularly in int... 		Nov 21, 2006
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Leading a mixed language development team
This week I decided to join the development team of my client RealWorld Systems here in Panama for a long-term involvement. After providing consulting services for the company for a few months I felt that joining the team would make sense and I appreci... 		Nov 19, 2006
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iSCSI support in Linux
Linux iSCSI by Cisco joined forces with Open iSCSI. The result is code to be compiled against kernel 2.6.16 or newer. Yesterday I successfully installed Ubuntu Edgy and upgraded to a kernel 2.6.17 compiled over night from source retrieved via git fro... 		Sep 24, 2006
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Latin American business culture
Latin American culture is different than European or American culture. While in the United States everything is fast and people tend to work long hours, things in Latin America go by another pace. That doesn't mean Latinos are lazy, they do work hard, ... 		Sep 24, 2006
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My work on a server farm with diskless blade servers
Some might ask what has happened to the work I was doing lately for a server farm with diskless blade servers. Everything is going well. Only there is nothing exciting to report for now. I've done some further experiments with Xen, diskless booting inc... 		Sep 24, 2006
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Maven2, Eclipse Callisto with WTP and Subclipse working together
A dream has come true. With the Eclipse Callisto release the Web Tools Project (WTP) finally works as one expected it to work. It's the most comfortable environment for developing web application that I've seen so far. The only drawback has been the la... 		Jul 30, 2006
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Don't install Java apps from the Ubuntu repository, if you want to use Sun's JVM
Now that Ubuntu Dapper supports Sun's JVM directly, it would be nice to install things like Tomcat the same way. So let's try this: sns@testbed:/opt$ sudo apt-get install tomcat5 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The follo... 		Jul 19, 2006
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Sun Java VM on Ubuntu Linux
The newly released Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper includes support for Sun's JVM. It is available in the multiverse repository. In order to access multiverse one has to add these two lines to /etc/apt/sources.lis... 		Jul 18, 2006
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iSCSI support in Linux
iSCSI support amongst the different Linux distributions is currently a bit uneven. There are two projects: linux-iscsi on sourceforge which was sponsered by Cisco and Open iSCSI which started independently and now has merged with linux-iscsi. linux-is... 		Jul 14, 2006
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iSCSI support in Linux
Linux iSCSI by Cisco joined forces with Open iSCSI. The result is code to be compiled against kernel 2.6.16 or newer. Yesterday I successfully installed Ubuntu Edgy and upgraded to a kernel 2.6.17 compiled over night from source retrieved via git fro... 		Jul 12, 2006