Random thoughts by Ceki Gülcü

Passing test suites attest as to the quality of the code being tested. Just as importantly, it gives the developer confidence to evolve the ...

Mikeal Rogers recently published a blog entry entitled "Apache considered harmful" . He writes: The open source section of my br...

On a recent flight back home from a tropical island, the captain announced that a stewardess was about to spray the cabin with insecticide. ...

The Scala language offers significant improvements over the Java language with traits, higher order functions and type inference among other...

On Groovy After programming almost exclusively in Java for the last 14 years, I picked up Groovy during the spring of 2010. If my memory ser...

I my previous post I presented an unsparing criticism of Apache's voting procedures . In this post, I describe a new voting procedure wh...

The initial title for this article was "Why the Apache model sucks". It would have been a catchier title but would taint my argume...

You can take any .java file and rename it .groovy and the result will be valid Groovy. Compared to other contenders in the new-Java space su...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was recently operated in Germany to have his gall bladder removed. Hosni Mubarak assumed presidency on Oct...

In an earlier post I described how one adapt a single configuration file for use in development as well as production environments. At thos...

In real-world applications assembled out of heterogeneous parts or interacting with systems beyond your control, error conditions are bound ...

It is often desirable to keep the same logging configuration file during development and production environments. (I use logback as my loggi...

Sometimes a web-page needs to redirect to a new address. A 301 redirect means that a page moved permanently, which in most cases is indistin...

Part of the SLF4J API, Markers allow developers to add meta-data to log statements. Not all errors are equal, with some errors being more un...

According to new flight safety regulations, passengers are not allowed to stand up and go to the restroom one hour prior to landing of the a...

Here is the Eclipse template I use for creating new logger fields in my code. ${:import(org.slf4j.Logger, org.slf4j.LoggerFactory)}Logger lo...

After about 6 years of hesitation, I got a new laptop. The old one was getting embarrassingly slow. Given my past horrible experiences with ...

The default urls created by Wicket do not look very nice. For instance, let IndexPage be the home page of our ShopApplication. Assuming shop...

Coming across Cedric Beust's comments on IDEA going open-source , I thought I'd chime in. Cedric makes valid points, in particular a...

The US budget deficit has reached astronomical proportions. Admittedly, the same holds true in European countries. However, European economi...