The Tech Stack Explosion
I have been working on this blog post for over a year. At a talk at Accelarate 2019 yesterday, Accela CTO Renato Mascardo put into different words what I had been thinking about. He called it the R...
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Old Code
I recently purchased one of those ‘C64 mini‘ devices. It’s quite amazing and very slick in how I can use USB and HDMI with such an ancient piece of technology. As you can imagine, it...
Screen Scraping
Screen scraping: it’s one of those things that we all do, but no one likes to admit to. That reminds me of something else that I can’t quite put my hand on… I did my first screen scr...
Prioritizing Properties Files when Bridging Camel and Spring
Last week I blogged about prioritizing properties files as they are loaded by Apache Camel in the camel-context.xml. But this will not work if you use the BridgePropertyPlaceholderConfigurer to bridge...
Specifying A Priority Order of Properties Files in camel-context.xml
Apache Camel allows you to specify multiple properties files in camel-context.xml by separating them with a comma: <propertyPlaceholder id="properties" location="file:/etc/configmap/app.properties,...
Progress
Here is a succession of screenshots from my upcoming game, Hockey Brass: The oldest screenshot, from November 2011, or as my brother said, ‘it looks like 1993 threw up on your computer’: A...
NHL Simulation 2017-2018
With my NHL simulator, Hockey Brass (more on that in an upcoming post), I ran the 2017-2018 season to see what might feasibly happen. Here’s what came out of it. The big stories are a Montreal-T...
Well ‘That’ Won’t Scale
If you have been around the industry for a year or more, you’ve almost undoubtedly heard someone talk about scale. Perhaps they have said, ‘that feature won’t scale’, or ‘...
Trunk and Branches
I know what you’re thinking. He’s writing a post about revision control: SVN, Git, etc. Nope. This post is all about training and education. More specifically, I’m talking about what...
Estimates Redux!
My thinking on giving software estimates has evolved a little. I still believe that exponential estimates are the right way to go. (In fact, someone pointed out there is already a name for something v...