The Agile Manifesto was written over 20 years ago and according to some it's age is starting to show. After all, 20 years in IT should be a good approximation of eternity given the rate of change in the industry...…
This post is also avaialble on GitHub together with all the source files! When using Jenkinsfile and Dockerfile with Microservices you are typically repeating the same boilerplate code over and over again. Initially this is not a problem but as the number of Microservices - and Git branches - start…
In the first part of this blog post I discussed how Java Enumerations can be conveniently used as 1. Fault codes in exceptions; and 2. Provide formatted and localized error messages The major drawback with the approach is that the fault codes make exception handling more complicated for cases when…
When I first read about Swift I quite liked its error handling. In Java checked exceptions have gotten quite a bad rep but instead of throwing out the baby with the bathwater and getting rid of checked exceptions altogether, the way they do it in Swift seems to strike a…
As an assignment in the Strategy and Marketing course of my ongoing MBA studies we were required to give our personal view of what strategy is and I thought I should publish the result here. Part of the reading for the assignment included five articles from Harvard Business Review, three…
Recently a couple of New York college students made a stir when they announced that they would write an open source and distributed social network server as an alternative to Facebook. This is really in the true spirit of the internet, where everyone can set up his or her own…
As you may know Agile software development is inspired by the principles of Lean Manufacturing which in turn is derived from the Toyota Production System (TPS). One Agile methodology, Lean Software Development even borrows the name Lean to make the connection explicit. Since the principles in Lean and TPS have…
At the thanksgiving dinner of a friend from work I tried to explain REST-ful applications – and I think I failed miserably. Even though there are plenty of good introductions out there I felt I needed to organize my thoughts a bit. Having some spare time on the train on the…