eXtreme Programming

I’m a staunch supporter of eXtreme Programming because its focus on communication with customers as well as within the team is just plain common sense. Most projects fail not because of technical issues but because of bad planning and mismanagement.
Compared to other methodologies, XP is developer-centric and focuses only on the development phase of a [...]

Eclipse vs. Netbeans

I use Eclipse since my last project was a Websphere project and WSAD (Websphere Studio Application Developer) is based on Eclipse. Before that I used IntelliJ, which is good but not J2EE oriented. In my new project some of my colleagues use Netbeans, so I looked into what the differences are.

Migrating to Eclipse: A developer’s [...]

UML References

UML is not a magic bullet that will make all your software development problems disappear. To bring value to a project, it must be used properly. Therefore, a good book or course or even online tutorial would be a smart thing to do. I learned my UML in a very good course, but I would [...]