Substance of Code

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 [...]

I must have done something right about the Mobile Trail Explorer software as it seems that someone is really using it. Latest version have already been downloaded 856 times in less then a month according to the Google Code’s file list and this doesn’t even include direct over-the-air or plain JAR and JAD file [...]

I’ve been researching this subject lately since I’ve had many good conversations about the two approaches with my fellow co-workers. The Fowler’s term, Anemic Domain Model, was new to me even though I’ve used the both Rich and Anemic Domain Models in the past without giving much attention to the differences between these two approaches.
What [...]

Google Code’s project hosting service was updated a while ago. Now it contains services for file downloads and wikis. Check out the file downloads section on my Mobile RSS Reader project.

I just finished up coding the ATOM feed support for RSS Reader so now you can read great blogs like On Be(come)ing Agile. I also [...]

I’m in a position where I once in a while find my self maintaining parts of _really_ old code. The code that have been revisited multiple times over the years by multiple developers. At the times like those I really hope that the coding style guide practice would had been around from the day one.
Every [...]

I’m just about to release the next version of the RSS Reader MIDlet. I had a bit of a trouble when I tried to get a BlackBerry JDE to work with NetBeans IDE 5.5 and Windows Vista. As I wrote earlier it was rather easy to setup for Windows XP.
I set up the environment like [...]

I bought a new laptop and just finished installing Windows Vista’s Ultimate edition on it. Vista was released for MSDN users a week ago and it seems that it will be available to general public in February 2007.
It is good to know that NetBeans IDE seems to work with Vista without any problems whereas Microsoft’s [...]

There were some anonymous requests for releasing a BlackBerry version of the RSS Reader MIDlet so I took the challenge and was able to build a version for BlackBerry. The application seems to work with the BlackBerry emulator and according to the anonymous comment it installs over the air on the actual device. Here are [...]

I have been moving towards using the Test-Driven Development (TDD) more and more both as professionally and in my hobby projects. Even the slightest use of TDD have shown to give a good results. As the basic rule of software development says: “It is always better to identify bugs as early as possible in development [...]