by Petri on January 15, 2012
How often have your heard one of the following phrases: This is a small project so we will just have to put something together and FAST. Big projects need to be designed in a totally different manner than small ones. This is just a campaign product / prototype which is used only once. We can [...]
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by Petri on September 29, 2011
Continuous integration has established its place among the good software development practices. However, setting up a continuous integration server and configuring it to run your tests automatically does not mean that you are really doing continuous integration. It only means that you have installed a continuous integration server and it run your tests automatically. Martin [...]
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by Petri on June 24, 2011
I remember a time when I used to believe that the ability to create reusable components was a sign of a professional software engineer. This is definitely true if you are building a framework or a library. However, I am not convinced that reusability is valuable when a framework or a library is used for [...]
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by Petri on June 19, 2011
Since agile software development has really hit the mainstream during the last few years, it is only natural that there are a lot of misconceptions around. Also, I have noticed that some misconceptions are more common than other ones. This blog entry is written to introduce you the three most common misconceptions about agile software [...]
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I was trying to figure out a good definition of a domain model for this blog entry. All of my efforts led in to a somewhat clumsy explanation. However, I was able to find a good definition of a domain model from Wikipedia: A domain model in problem solving and software engineering can be thought [...]
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