by edvorkin | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog, Cloud Computing, Java
Recently I had to make a decision to which cloud provider (Platform as a service -PAAS) deploy new application. Usually we deploy applications to our data centers, so this was the first time my team decided to use cloud provider. We wanted to free ourselves from the...
by edvorkin | Nov 26, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog, Programming
As automated testing has became one of the central process in Agile application development, developers and testers realized than automated test are not only tests but also executable behavior of the systems expressed via test cases. This realization has created a new...
by edvorkin | Nov 17, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog, Java
Sometimes I see this error popping up when I try to deploy applications. Some big projects with a lot of dependencies will hit the server limitation almost on first or second deploy. This happens more often with development or integration servers because Agile teams...
by edvorkin | Oct 31, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog
Sonar is a tool that integrate a range of quality analysis tools into a single website. It provide one page visibility into quality of project source code. Developers and managers are interested in test coverage, code duplication, adherence to coding standard,...
by edvorkin | Oct 23, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog, Groovy /Grails, Java, Programming
In this series of articles I will share my experience building deployment pipeline or build pipeline with open source tools. Deployment pipeline is an automated process that manage all software changes – from version control check-in to production. Usually...
by edvorkin | Oct 11, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog
In this video presentation from JavaOne 2011 Conference, Michael Hüttermann, author of Agile ALM: Lightweight tools and Agile strategies, will discuss various aspects of Agile Application Management. One of the interesting topic is how to do release management using...
by edvorkin | Oct 6, 2011 | Blog, Java, Programming
This original rap music video made for JavaOne 2011 celebrates the “Java Life”. Dedicated to the developer homies everywhere who code hard day and night. Think Java programmers meet street Hip Hop. Speaking about Java videos, check out videos from JavaZone...
by edvorkin | Oct 2, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog
This post is about continuous integration practice and Jenkins (Hudson) — one of the most popular open-source continuous integration server. The six must-have plug-ins I’ll discuss here will make your job of configuring Jenkins and running builds much more productive....
by edvorkin | Sep 26, 2011 | BigData, Blog, Programming
Interesting talk about NoSQL and Polyglot persistence by Emil Eifrem, CEO of Neo Technology, Neo4J graph database. This talk was made at Jfocus – the largest annual conference for software developers held in Stockholm, Sweden. The focus is system development...
by edvorkin | Sep 21, 2011 | Blog
Collection of most interesting of my tweets for last month All JavaZone 2011 videos – wealth of knowledge and information for #JVM #java developers You’re a Manager…Now What? Resources for Managers and leaders Joel Spolsky’s company released...