June 2006 - Posts

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Thinking in Java by hannes

One of my favorite authors has always been Bruce Eckel. The first book of his I bought was “Thinking in C++” in the good old days when I was still hacking with C. Well, not long after I have read “Thinking in C++” I bought “Thinking in Java”. Unfortunately I never got the change to read the book over even work in Java, my interest turned to the .Net world for next couple of years. Well a couple of days ago I rediscovered my “Thinking in Java” book on my book shelf. So far I only read Chapter 1, so...
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SQL, is it a language? by hannes

Yesterday I had an interesting discussion with a colleague about SQL and how it was used by some. At my previous job I came across system that was written by a bunch of ex COBOL programmers using only SQL. Believe me it was not pretty. Store procedures that spanned pages and pages, nested sub queries, cursors left right and center, etc. Well amazingly the system works but it’s a nightmare to maintain because it’s real spaghetti code. My colleague told me on one of his previous projects he saw the...
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Source control woes by hannes

I’m currently working on a web project with two other (very good) developers. I’m responsible for client side development and they are doing all the server side development. Like so often the project is running late with the roll out date just around the corner. Our code depository is VSS and the code solution is setup to allow for multiple checkouts. This is the first time that I’m working on a solution setup like this but I can tell you that it’s a total disaster in our team. With everyone trying...
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Code =! Design by hannes

Yesterday I went for an interview for an System Analyst position at a large Financial Institution. The project which they require the Analyst for is quite a large project with a formal methodology and well defined roles for all the role players (B.A’s, S.A’s, Dev, DBA, etc) The one topic that stumped me was a) What checks will you put in place to ensure that the implementation reflects the design? b) How will you verify afterwards that the implementation reflects the design? c) What action will you...
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