The year 2008 has almost passed. It is the last day of the year and I want to do some reflection on this year at gridshore. Did you ever think about reflection? Do you use it in you day to
Defects, Lean Software Development, Offshore, oh my …
This blog item I have dedicated to zoom in on Bugs, a specific type of Waste (muda which is Toyta lexicon) aka DEFECTS as they have a huge effect on Productivity. But lets start with the Analysts and their magic
Using JVM instrumentation to create a Spring Context Loader Agent for standalone apps
Within the JEE platform a rather common and well-understood system of configuration is based on the Chain of Responsibility and the Event Delivery patterns: the life cycle of enterprise components starts with achieving a general configuration goal. However, on top
Using the Memento pattern to solve thread safety issues
Introduction Author’s note: this is an article that I co-authoredwith a colleague, Robert van der Steen. It has also been published in our company newsletter. Many of the applications we write for our clients nowadays use the service paradigm: a
A small apology
Over the course of a number of different posts on Gridshore, I have mentioned a number of different ideas (mine as well as others’) that I was planning to introduce into my project and of which I promised to report
Upgrade subversion client on mac osx
The mac is a pretty complete system for developing applications. Once I was surprised that tools like subversion and maven come pre-installed. There is a big advantage for the non-technical users that these tools are pre installed. Although I doubt
Things I do with flex as a java programmer
So far I have written a few posts mainly about the implementation of security and flex. In this post I want to focus on a the usage of flex in a more general sense. For the experienced flex programmer, this
Inspirational moments
I needed of course a reason to write besides the 99 also the 101 Post. So two inspirational moments to do so: 100 Posts on the Gridshore blog.That needs celebration. Every inspirational moment — well, 40 of them — you