Community Server

The guys at Codehaus are moving the continuous integration servers. I must say that I had a WTF-moment when this build failure notification dropped in my inbox: I find it amusing that the build failed because “all the tests passed”. The real reason was that it was unable to find Maven on the build server…

Whatever language you write in, your task as a programmer is to do the best you can with the tools at hand. A good programmer can overcome a poor language or a clumsy operating system, but even a great programming environment will not rescue a bad programmer. Kernighan and Pike When I attended Richard Öberg’s talk on Qi4J at the Oslo ...

With my posts on reflection optimization for .NET and Java, I unconsciously proved a point from an earlier post on cultural movements within the .NET-community. I use a lot of open source frameworks in my work. One cool benefit this gives me is that it is amazingly easy to move between Java and .NET development. Consider these two examples from my ...

Spell checking code can lead to some really funny misspellings. In my previous post I had an interface named IDuckService which the spell checker suggested that I'd change to quackeries. Naïve spell checking of code with Microsoft Words dictionary doesn't make much sense, but there are some alternatives that do. ...