Monthly Archives: February 2009

Feedback for improvement in agility

Posted on February 18, 2009 by admin

Last week, during a casual chat with our Agile evangelist, I asked about what could be improved in our team based on what he observed. He quickly said that it depends on a lot of things and that it is difficult to … Continue reading →

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Application Configuration properties simplified by Spring

Posted on February 8, 2009 by admin

The combination of PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and PropertyOverrideConfigurer classes in Spring Beans API have been invaluable for me to simplify configuration properties for a few of applications I have worked-on recently. The placeholder configurer helps us to share the properties across various … Continue reading →

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Best way to demo/learn a Java-based API

Posted on February 1, 2009 by admin

I designed and implemented a dual-API SDK at my current job. This dual-API SDK did not initially run on any application server. During this implementation, I learnt that it is best to use a dynamic language like JRuby or JPython or Groovy for … Continue reading →

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