Substance of Code

I’ve been using NetBeans IDE for quite a few years now. It has improved very nicely over the years and it have became a top player in the IDE field. If you are a Eclipse or IDEA developer I’d suggest you to at least try it out as it is not the same as it [...]

I’ve been coding dashboard applications lately with Java SE. I have used JFreeChart library to generate all pie, line and bar charts. The library is awesome and is also Open Source. It would be very nice to see similar projects in the .NET world.
It was very easy to create first charts with JFreeChart mostly because [...]

I thought it was already Christmas as I just received a package from Sun Microsystems full of NetBeans goodies. I won these from the NetBeans.TV competition. Package included nice T-shirt, Rich Client Programming book, NetBeans pen, 1Gb memory stick and stress ball (or cube actually).
I have used NetBeans IDE 6.0 from the early daily builds [...]

I just finished up reading the Pragmatig Programmer, a book written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. This book falls in the same must-read category as other less technical books such as Code Complete or Joel on Software. This is a book that should be found from every software developer’s bookshelf.
Book is filled with [...]

Social services have become very popular recently. I have already created an account to such sites as Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku and few others.
Twitter seems to be quite popular amongst geeks like me. It is a great platform for micro-blogging but as I really don’t want to use SMS messages to update my status on [...]

Nevertheless I didn’t get a prize for the Agile Wall Report plugin it feels like it is the most used plugin from my submissions. I have received many emails containing great ideas for improvements and some have even said that this plugin was the argument when choosing JIRA over another issue management software :)

Today I [...]

Schedule estimation is one of the hardest thing when planning a software project. How many times a simple project wasn’t finished in a planned schedule? Quite many…

Agile software development methodologies have brought many useful techniques to improve estimation and to monitor project progress more efficiently. Planning poker is one of the enjoyable ones. It [...]

Wow! I won a second prize in Atlassian Codegeist 2007 competition with the Confluence Portlet for JIRA. Thank you guys! I can’t wait to get my hands on the Bamboo, IntelliJ IDEA and other licenses :)
The first place went to JIRA Links Hierarchy Report which deserves the grand prize as the plugin is very well [...]

It seems that people at Atlassian are well aware of the fact that developers can’t resist themselves for working hard when there is change to get a free techie T-shirt. So also the geek in me couldn’t resist for the challenge, Atlassian Codegeist, and I just had to write plugins for JIRA, an issue management [...]

I have been using Windows Vista since it was released for MSDN users in late 2006. I must say that Microsoft have really taken security issues seriously as during the first few months I must have pushed hundreds of “Allow” buttons in multiple security warning dialogs. Security is an important issue but this is really [...]