Archive for March, 2008

Fluent interfaces and code readability

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Fluent interfaces. Sigh. They help sometimes, they really do. In fact I don't have anything against the idea, it's the actual use that makes me uncomfortable. Let's start with the example first. The nicer one, that is. And to make my case stronger, I will use an example taken directly out ...

Whitespace and coding standards

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Today I would like to touch a subject which is often trivialized by many software craftsmen - use of white space and coding standards compliance. I work in an environment where two (or more) subcontractors often work on the same project, many times concurrently; where coding standards and clean coding ...

Spring’s PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer as a PropertiesFactoryBean

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

For a couple of past days I have been struggling with a problem with Spring's PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer. I coudn't get it to work in a way PropertiesFactoryBean is working. I wanted it to act in a similar way: <bean id="properties" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"> ...

Let’s get started with this thingy

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Well, this is a strange feeling. I have always been opposed to the idea of blogging and yet here we are. On my own, more-or-less personal, blog. I don't really know why I have decided to open one now or if I will keep it alive for a longer period of ...