Developer Experience

Bug-killing Via Logs

I am a log watcher. I regularly “tail -f” numerous files such as catalina.out (Tomcat), log4j.log, and apache's error and…

Quite a while back, I was heavily involved in a Java project with a stunningly large codebase. Portions of the…

I was recently involved in a CMS evaluation for a rather large client. Their needs were relatively simple but overall…

Or flavour if you prefer… I was recently speaking with another developer on a customer site about merging two projects.…

With one of our biggest customers right now, I'm working on a series of SMS applications. Neither is particularly complicated,…

When software developers talk about a project, concept, or just about anything else, we normally speak in reference to models.…

I recently received a survery from Xml.com and thought I'd share some of the information here. As my regular readers…

I have to admit that I've been following fellow CodeSniper Ben Bryant's discussion of XML with just a bit of…

I've been working on a project for one my biggest customers now for many months. The system is huge, has…

In case you missed this tidbit, from a while back from Tim Bray, you should check it out and come…