March 9th, 2009 • Comments Off on Clean Code – book review
The book "Clean code" from Robert C. Martin has the subtitle: "A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship". It comes up with some nice ideas. Many of them you might know, but hidden in the book are some other ideas. Overall it’s well written and easy to read. And compared to the book "Code Craft" much thinner so faster to read (Although Code Craft is a very good book, and a must read for prgrammers!). Overall a nice book if you want to get into the idea of writting quality code.
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March 5th, 2009 • Comments Off on Open Grid Forum – Day 4
Today was another interesting day @OGF 25. One session hosted by Wolfgang Gentzsch and Martin Antony Walker dealt with the topic: From Grids to Clouds. Interesting ideas and thoughts what the similarities are. Also some nice ideas about which applications would favor HPC, Grid or Cloud based solutions.
My talk in this session was about the RESERVOIR project: http://www.ogf.org/OGF25/materials/1596/20090224_RESERVOIR_overview_tmetsch-v0.1.pdf
Here are some more pictures from OGF. Not the best weather today but still a nice meeting area:
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February 27th, 2009 • Comments Off on Backup your data
I strive not to say that this is cloud computing: but backing up your data online is a very nice idea. Sadly enough HP’s upline.com will close it’s doors soon. Now it’s time to look at the other players. I still now of fabrik.com and mozy.com. Both offering free online backup up to 2GB and unlimited for a little few.
Still the question is: is this cloud computing? I say no! This is an online service. Do not sell everything in this hype 🙂
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February 26th, 2009 • Comments Off on Made it to the top
I did it 🙂 With over 320 Hits on this blog I became listed in popular blogs on blogs.sun.com 🙂
See for yourself:
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February 26th, 2009 • Comments Off on Inspecting the integrity of your source code.
Software projects grow over time. They get bigger, more stuff is added, patches added and bugs fixed. New features added, and removed and code removed. But who keeps track of the changes and ensures that your source code repository stays clean? That they are no old undeleted files, no missing unittest, that all dependecies are correct? In short: that they are no broken windows (link) and a nice clean environment a engineer can checkout, compile and run within minutes?
I’m using the ReInCheck tool for that. Currently it is customized to support a multi module maven project which consists of OSGi bundles. But it should be easy to adopt it to your needs.
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