I read or listen at least one book per two weeks. I want to share the list with you. First of all it is always worth to recommend good book. Second I hope you could help me. Please write your suggestion into comments. Books from Q1 This quarter list: Time Management Made Simple by Brian […]

In Part one we talked about problems with productivity instead of great support from community, adding more resources, introducing scurm or other lean processes. We end up with resource efficiency (engineers), today we follow the next problem with throughput.  In every company there are more project, more important things to do than people. The number of projects […]

There was a time when I did some JVM tuning. It’s time to reactivate the part of the brain responsible for this activity. The key principle is to prepare a baseline. What is it? The baseline refers to: the first measuring mechanisms (np. gc.log) – we should measure on different levels (cpu, I/O, database etc) […]

In my wunderlist‘s “watch this” list I found this dinosaur movie to watch: MDA: A forlorn hope. by Uncle Bob. It was posted over two years ago and it was viewed almost 55 thousand times. MDA is easy isn’t it? The MDA Guid has only 62 pages. We need some modeling tools and another tool for […]

I’ve read Forrester’s Big Data Predictions for 2013. Mike gave four predictions: First prediction: everyone must figure out that BigData is everywhere, surrounds us. We need to find ways of learning from that data. We need to build new tools and methods for easily decision taking based on many different sources of data simultaneously and what is pretty […]

For all engineers seeking what resolutions to choose. This presentation will help: Engineering Change. Some ideas from presentation: Continuous Deployment: make mistake quick, cheap failures, Metric Driven Development: learning based on knowledge, know the project health, measure, measure and once again measure. Learn new language:  chosen from different programing paradigm. NoSQL: choose NoSQL solution to […]

Spring Team surprised us once again with Spring Migration Analyzer tool. Migration with Spring wasn’t so painful, BUT this one create report for us. Now it easier to estimate effort and we now spots where we should put our attention. I read InfoQ article: “Spring Migration Analyzer: An Assistant For JavaEE To Spring Conversion” about great […]

Everybody knows web application are now de facto standard in daily use. We go even further as we have more and more mobile devices. We are building our apps in such a way we can access it from mobile phones, tablets and even e-book readers. So nobody should be surprised that companies involved in web […]

Safari users still susceptible to attacks. Follow the instructions posted at $ps|Enable to fully protect your system. slashem – type safe Scala DSL for Solr. Google APIs Client Library for .NET (still in beta). Android powered Kindle – worst kept secret is now confirmed. Dreamforce 2011 Keynote. Awesome Seth post entry: Not fade away. Best […]

I’m involved in Grails project. Despite of development, my responsibility is taking care about code quality. I do Code Review, and I was wondering about tool to help me a little bit. In meantime I was reading GroovyMag issue and found out CodeNarc tool. This tool do static analysis for groovy. Last CodeNarc version is […]

JPA2 added new typesafe Criteria API. This allows us to build query in strongly-typed manner instead of string based. To provide such functionality JPA2 use Metamodel API described in JSR-317: Chapter 5. When entity manager factory is bootstrapping for persistence unit, then persistence provider have to initialize metamodel classes so this classes have to be […]