In the past 2 years I worked in, and visited many development teams to help them implement divers Wicket applications. Some applications were mostly for visualizing stuff, some were full of forms, and some were full of Ajax tricks. This article contains some of the lessons I had to teach, or had to learn myself. […]
Feed Your Database
The priority that performance testing gets among other development activities is always less; it is an “afterthought”, not a critical, ongoing part of the development process. Typically, it is done in higher environments like ST, QA. Some attention is given to performance in the prior SDLC cycles like design by making proper selection of frameworks. But […]
DDD and modern software development
One of the main things we do @ jteam is creating rock solid custom development. Of course we use proven frameworks, we keep innovating and we use a lot of the best practices for custom software development. Best practices I am talking about are: Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Peer reviews and of course Scrum. […]
JTeam Technology Matrix: The Stars
In Alef’s previous blog entry about the JTeam Technology Matrix, he explained the basic idea of using a BCG-matrix to classify technologies. In this blog entry I’ll focus on the ‘Star’ section of our current matrix and highlight some of the technologies that are currently in there. Star technologies are the technologies that bring us […]
Easier mocking with Mockito
If you have been happily using Easymock for the past years, this blog post is for you. Because you need to upgrade to Mockito, the new kid on the block in the mocking universe. Why bother about what mocking framework you’re using to create your unittests? Because it will improve you tests, make them more […]
Automated functional testing with WebDriver
There is nothing nicer than having a functional test suite that checks if your application is still working as it should. It is even nicer to run these tests and see what is happening, while the tests are being executed. Two of the tools that give you this opportunity are Selenium RC and WebDriver. In […]
Bean Validation: Integrating JSR-303 with Spring
I recently had a chance to actually use the new Bean Validation spec. in one of my projects. As the developer of the Bean Validation Framework for Spring (part of the springmodules project) it of course feels a bit weird to ditch all the work I’ve done, but at the same time, it also feels […]
Introduction to Hadoop
Recently I was playing around with Hadoop, after a while I really recognized that this was a great technology. Hadoop allows you to write and run your application in a distributed manner and process large amounts of data with it. It consists out of a MapReduce implementation and a distributed file system. Personally I did […]
Geo-Location Search with Solr and Lucene
Like many people, I use Google Maps to find businesses near my house. This kind of search differs considerably from usual free text searches since I’m no longer just asking for companies that include the phrase pizza, I’m also asking for companies that are near a certain point. This functionality has until recently been found […]
Domain Driven Design applied
In a recent project for Osix, we developed an application allowing visitors of a library to use the wireless Internet connection available there. Visitors can pay for the Internet access in two ways: an online payment, for example using a credit card or by deducting the amount from their library account. All user accounts, as […]