I joined the Jazz project while it was still in its very early days, roughly two and a half years ago. At that time, the Raleigh team was just finishing up a short-lived experiment of trying to build an extensible platform using J2EE. This experiment demonstrated that the J2EE classloader hierarchy was not the right […]

I’ve been a software developer for about 14 years and been involved with too many projects where the schedules shifted and slipped – frustrating the developers and losing the interest of customers. So it was an epiphany to me several years ago to see the way the Eclipse project used “rhythm” to get great output […]

From Techworld.com – How not to deploy an application over a WAN, “Although the medical appointment application was advertised as being client/server based, it wasn’t. In particular, the application was designed in such a way that the data in each field was sent character by character over the network. Hence, this was another example of […]

This was an exciting Christmas for me. For the first time ever, I couldn’t wait to give my in-laws their Christmas gift, which I bought some 2 months ago. For those without in-laws, you can’t even start to imagine how many brownie points this added to my small savings. The gift idea came to me […]

Every existing SCM tool allows you to fix a bug in a previous release. But the reality is that most SCM tools focus primarily on allowing you to change the code whereas there is more to fixing a bug than simply making the code changes. It turns out that even with simple projects there are […]