Confessions of a Software Developer

Finally, the white paper Business Rules in ADF Business Components has been revamped! As usual it took much more work than anticipated, esp...

When you have been doing things in a particular way for a long time, you sometimes find that in the mean time your way has become the slow w...

I case you wonder why I don't write that much lately, my wife just got out of the hospital with a so-called Ilizarov frame , with the pu...

When using the Oracle ADF (Application Development Framework), implementing data-related business rules in the persistance layer is a good p...

When I was young I practised judo for a couple of years. Got myself a brown belt and nothing after that, as I wasn't the competition kin...

The other day I had a really challenging discussion about how to apply OUM (Oracle Unified Method) / UP (Unified Process) on a running proje...

Remember the UML white papers I talked about updating them? Well they got published today! So when you are interested in getting started wit...

When capturing specifications, it is always a challenge to weight effort against risk. The more you specify, the less risk there is of missi...

Currently I'm updating the white paper Business Rules in ADF BC . Doing so it occurred to me that there are still many questions to answ...

Yes! Today the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) Release 4.3.0 has been announced! Ermmm. That was an internal announcement, as we do not yet have...

The other day I wrote about the UML Class Modeler of JDeveloper 10.1.3 and concluded that not much has been changed since JDeveloper 10.1.2...

About two years ago I published a couple of white papers about UML, unit testing, and source control, and how to do that using JDeveloper 9....

What makes a project 'agile'? Are you only doing an agile project when you apply all principles of eXtreme Programming for example?...

Already a couple of years I'm a member of a group within the Oracle Methods Group that is responsible for the Oracle Unified Method, or ...

Man, have I been busy lately! Actually that is a very lame excuse for not having posted for a long, long time. The excuse even gets lamer, w...

For some peculiar reason I'm involved with three customers at the same time wanting me to assist them in changing their way of doing sys...

Man, I could not have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would write about time boxing and prioritization again that soon. Or couldn't...

You don't even need to watch carefully to discover that often two people that seem to be talking about the same, in fact could not be fu...

I confess, I made a bad mistake some time ago. I started to work on a project that had no proper source control system in place. Instead, zi...

The other day I had I discussion with a colleague about what many people call "non-functional" requirements (as opposed to functio...