On Coding Standards & Software Development

June 2nd, 2006 Top 10 reasons not to use coding standards: 1. Coding conventions are hard to remember.

August 29th, 2006 I come from the background of non-glamorous corporate development where we developed rock-solid code with very few defects, if any. And yes we had to sit through endless design meetings, reviews and more meetings.

August 15th, 2007 I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company.

November 13th, 2004 I would like to point you to a very thoughtful blog entry on the current state of UDDI at Loosely Coupled Weblog A very critical observation in The Atom End Game on the role of standards body - they should only be defining standards. Their job is to tabulate what works and what doesn't.

April 8th, 2009 The breaking news today is Google App Engine has finally announced support for Java. The Java environment provides a Java 6 JVM, a Java Servlets interface, and support for standard interfaces to the App Engine scalable datastore and services, such as JDO, JPA, JavaMail, and JCache.

February 9th, 2006 I have been interviewing several freshers who were taught Java in engineering schools under computer science curriculum. Interviewing them highlighted serious problems with their education as well as with the system.

April 26th, 2005 In response to my post PHP development practices from a Java Architects eye, Jeff Moore had some thoughts. I posted my response (to his reponse to my post) in his post.

August 2nd, 2005 Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame has written an excellent article on the value of star programmers in a product development team. To summarize: Star programmers significantly outperform average programmers often with 5-10 times difference in productivity.

November 3rd, 2004 I was recently pulled into Groovy, a new Java based scripting language. You can read a good article highlighting groovy in onjava.com.

February 23rd, 2008 Translator for Web sites is a much requested feature from our clients. We have started development on it.

April 10th, 2006 The beauty about Java community is that they never shy of creating yet another framework for any new / good idea. You have seen dozens (or more) of dependency injection (IoC) frameworks.

February 16th, 2004 Background: I have used ANT (yes make and its variants too) a lot, recommended it for creating our own build system at a company I worked. At that time I realized that Ant has challenges addressing the needs of enterprise wide build system.

December 20th, 2004 Ellison Brookes developer in James Goslings thoughts agrees with James Gosling that Sun's strangle hold of the APIs leads to greater stablilty. This is true.

June 30th, 2009 The Portals are designed to offer your employees, partners and customers a single point of access to your organization's data, knowledge and services using a simple and self-explanatory interface. The open source standard compliant portal servers offers Content Management capabilities integrated with groupware that enable the users to create site for Internet, Extranet and Intranet that can be directly accessed through their browser.  The open source portal project require relatively lesser expenses and offers wider ambit of development.

May 30th, 2007 We are currently processing huge amount of sensitive corporate data for a Fortune 500 company as the first phase of a project. You have to be very careful in data processing, much more than any standard programming effort.