http://mudassir.net/blog Development done right Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:07:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you ever seen a developer who's good at what they do but would never really spread the knowledge to others? Well I have, plenty of them during my short career time. Some would argue that why they do what they do is to save their job since no one ... http://mudassir.net/blog/?p=15 Lean is not just for the manufacturing industry. Software industry has much to gain from it too. If applied smartly, it can improve processes and speed up the development time. One of the principles in lean is to organize your tools to save you time. Place your tools and equipment at ... http://mudassir.net/blog/?p=14 As a test driven developer, how do you start writing tests for a class you're about to write? Do you start with a top down approach and start with the behavioral kind of a test or do you drill down to smaller methods first and start there? That's always a ... http://mudassir.net/blog/?p=13 Join Software Craftsmanship North America 2010 (SCNA) as a forerunner to the Craftsmanship movement! CHICAGO, IL OCTOBER 15-16, 2010 http://scna.softwarecraftsmanship.org/ http://mudassir.net/blog/?p=12 Can agile principles be applied to a development team whose members are scattered geographically? Although its better to have all the team members in the same room, its still possible to be agile while being remote. Let us discuss and compare a few agile principles in the two kinds of ... http://mudassir.net/blog/?p=10 How do you isolate static method calls if you are not into using mock libraries like Mockito or Power Mock? There are a few hacks to do that. In each of the hacks, you have to pull out the static call one way or the other and then test the ... http://mudassir.net/blog/?p=9 Voice over IP together with JAVA programming can do wonders. I personally believe that the smart phone buzz in the industry has suppressed the fame VOIP could have received. Sky is the limit when it comes to VOIP programming but it has not really received the attention that it deserves. Adding ... http://mudassir.net/blog/?p=8 As a developer, you often come across a situation where you have to update a legacy system. And if you have been a developer for long enough, you'd know that its not uncommon to come across "monster" methods and "monster" classes. A small change in such methods and classes can ... http://mudassir.net/blog/?p=7