An opinion on SpringSource’s new maintenance policy Introduction On September 17, 2008 SpringSource announced a new Maintenance Policy regarding its software offerings, particularly its primary product (the Spring Framework) both in its open source and Enterprise editions. The new policy
That sounds unnecessarily uncomfortable
That sounds unnecessarily uncomfortable A response to “Cram your test driven development up your ass….” by Samuel N. Hart I was surfing the Web this evening and stumbled upon a rather uncomfortable-sounding suggestion by Samuel Hart regarding the disposition of
The Life Cycle Pattern
One of my current projects is responsible for delivering a library of functions that are used by several applications being built and maintained at our customer. One of those functions in particular is quite central to the operation of all
Dihydromonoxide: what’s in a name?
Does the name dihydromonoxide sound in any way familiar to you? It should (really, it should). Try googling it (here, I’ll make it easy for you). If and when you do google it, you will be informed by all sorts
MacCrook
Author’s note: Unlike my other posts so far, this is not going to be a technical article. So you can skip it if you like. 🙂 Or if you are an Apple fan with a weak heart…. For some reason,
SOA component design: thinking about error handling
When designing components for a SOA landscape (or any multiprocess system), the primary concern is with the communication behavior of the component: how messages are passed to and from the component and in what order, what those messages are and
The final problem
A while ago it happened to me again. I was working on a piece of code for which I had to extend a class and override a method; while doing so I ran straight into a brick wall in the