Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Reduce Complexity in Tests by Breaking Up the Scope

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A lot of people are overwhelmed with the complexity of their automated tests. I think the root problem in many cases is the scope of their t...
Monday, November 08, 2021

The Paradox of Simplicity & Value

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Often, delivering more value means doing less work , but it also means putting more thought and asking more questions .
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Use import.sql instead of data.sql if you'll be generating the schema with Hibernate

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Spring Boot will execute data.sql before Hibernate is able to generate the schema. During production, it's expected to have the schema ...

Changing the Default Type Mapping of Hibernate

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By default, Hibernate maps String s to varchar(255) . However, limiting the length of the characters has led to some serious problems. For e...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Yoda on YAGNI

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Anticipation of requirements leads to Speculative Generality Speculative Generality leads to Technical Debt Technical Debt... ...leads to su...
Thursday, October 03, 2019

Spring MVC Binding w/o Setters

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You can bind form parameters to a domain model object even if the domain model object does not have setters. Just add a @ControllerAdvice c...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

Tolkien vs. George R. R. Martin in Software Development

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Had a nice conversation yesterday with  Job Perez , an Agile trainer. He says he likes to relate good software development to Lord of the R...