Confessions of a Software Developer

Finally found the time to finish this posting which I started to write like three months ago! It's about time, as it might not take too ...

The other day I was part of an interesting discussion that started with the statement that there is a problem with OUM (Oracle Unified Metho...

Most things in life you can more easily get rid of than an unwanted revision in Subversion. As Simon and Garfunkel sang, there are even 50 w...

There will be some enhancements in the Oracle SOA Suite 11g regarding versioning of rules for Oracle Business Rules. Until then we will have...

Last week I attended a session in which the new-to-come SOA Suite 11g was being presented by Clemens Utschig-Utschig to Oracle Partners as...

For quite a while I could not use Rule Author anymore on my stand-alone OC4J, the reason being that I was not able to connect because of the...

... of our customers needing to wait for the Oracle Unified Method (OUM for short)! Last week version OUM Release 4.4.0 has been made availa...

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?...