Posted by Nicole Belilos mid-afternoon: April 27th, 2011
In Agile, we prefer Individuals over Processes and Tools. However, we hardly ever hear about these individuals, as we tend to focus on teams. In my daily life as an Agile coach, I see the effects Agile has on individuals, how they love it or hate it, resist or adopt, struggle or embrace.
I want to blog about these individuals who are the key to any Agile success. My tales are true stories of real people. I have only changed their names and some small facts to preserve their privacy.
This blog is about Chris, a tester whose resistance to Agile was very big. Read what he went through, and be surprised by the end of this story.
Posted by Maarten Winkels mid-morning: April 20th, 2011
As promised in a previous blog, I’ll devote this blog to how to extend the RESTEasy framework with support for mapping form fields on object-graphs with complex associations, like lists and maps.
These extensions have been reported to RESTEasy as two issues with patches. If you like these features, please vote for these issues.
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Posted by Friso van Vollenhoven mid-morning: April 18th, 2011
Today, Xebia published a white paper on NoSQL and Big Data crunching. This white paper presents a introduction on NoSQL and big data crunching along with a case study that was carried out at one of Xebia’s customers. Read more for the outline and full text…
Posted by yamsellem terribly early in the morning: April 18th, 2011
Authenticating users is an important part of an application. Limiting the access to resources with authorization too. Spring Security is a reference in web environment. However, it is tied to the Spring technology and the size of the library — more than 10 JAR of dependencies — may restrain its use. Moreover, its lack of integration with Guice or the recurrent deployment of an App Engine application may exclude it. This is the opportunity to take a closer look at Apache Shiro.
- Introduction to HTTP Authentication
- Shiro servlet filter
- Secure a resource
- Test integration
- Realm and Matcher for the authentication
- A powerful permission model
- Authorize with annotations
- Shiro, a true challenger
Posted by Maarten Winkels in the late evening: April 15th, 2011
In the java world we have been using and getting used to annotations since Java 1.5. Although there were some critical voices at first, I think most of us have come around and are using annotations now quite extensively. In my experience annotations are mostly used on POJO domain classes to configure frameworks like Hibernate, Spring and Seam and many other frameworks to be able to handle the custom objects correctly.
There are as many different approaches to this as there are implementations. In this blog I try to identify a few of the better approaches and a few of the poorer ones. The blog is not so much meant as a critique on the frameworks that the examples are taken from, but more as a guide to designing your own annotations whenever you might be faced with that task.
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Posted by Jan Vermeir mid-afternoon: April 3rd, 2011
To get some grip on the configuration of the Weblogic domains and servers at my current client, I created a tool that reads domain config files and translates them in a graph. I decided to solve this problem in Scala, mainly because I read about its powerful native XML parsing capabilities. Parsing XML turned out to be a total no-brainer, but I managed to learn something about how to solve problems the Scala way, so this is a story about Scala rather than parsing XML in Scala.
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Posted by Martien van Steenbergen around lunchtime: April 2nd, 2011
Scrum has much ado about Definition of Ready and Definition of Done.
The Definition of Ready for the current phase equals the Definition of Done for the previous. Likewise, the Definition of Done for the current phase equals the Definition of Ready for the next. They are the two sides of the same membrane.
So, why not simplify it and talk about the membrane only?