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15
Nov
Replacing Agile with the Studio Model?

Replacing Agile with the Studio Model?

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...
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04
May

How to stay DRY doing Microservices

This post is also avaialble on GitHub together with all the source files! When using Jenkinsfile and Dockerfile with Microservices
7 min read
26
Apr

Exception handling using enumerations in Java (II)

In the first part of this blog post I discussed how Java Enumerations can be conveniently used as 1. Fault
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24
Apr

Exception handling using enumerations in Java (I)

When I first read about Swift I quite liked its error handling. In Java checked exceptions have gotten quite a
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22
Feb

What is Strategy?

As an assignment in the Strategy and Marketing course of my ongoing MBA studies we were required to give our
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17
May

Diaspora Seeds

Recently a couple of New York college students made a stir when they announced that they would write an open
17
Mar

Toyota and Waterfall methdology for developing software

As you may know Agile software development is inspired by the principles of Lean Manufacturing which in turn is derived
28
Nov

REST for Scott

At the thanksgiving dinner of a friend from work I tried to explain REST-ful applications – and I think I
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23
Apr

SOA is Dead (but the corpse is still kicking)

In a famous post from January this year (which I missed) Ann Thomas Manes declares SOA dead. She is a
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24
Feb

Universal Assembly Cache - Dependency Management for Mono and Microsoft.NET

In the Java world there are several ways of handling dependencies between project components in a shared development environment. Maven
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