DRYing out code
Removing duplicate code is a great way to improve the internal quality of your application code. Duplications mean that you have more code than you should and are often the source of more subtle bugs …
Programming
Progressive Enhancement
Progressive Enhancement is a web development technique or pattern. The basic premise is that a web site should be accessible to all users and then to overlay additional functionality based on the …
New BTree algorithms for virtual memory systems
This is a very interesting article http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327 which demonstrates that we should not take things for granted - including algorithms that have been around for a long …
Testing abstrations
These ideas were presented as at ThoughtWorks Agile Southeast conference in Atlanta. The idea for these diagrams came about after the first time I spoke about web test driven development at Agile …
Java Properties handling - 1
I have been on a number of Java projects recently and one of the things I end up brewing for each of these projects is some enhanced management of runtime properties. Having said there are problems …