Using Ant 1.8 (eventually they have changed the implementation from 1.7 and onwards) in case you use the Input task to read multiple things from the system console and load them into properties or do what ever you like - you will end up with a Stream is closed IOexception the second time you will invoke an Input …

Here we go again. In the first part we have gone through 3 basic tools 1) Code Repository 2) Issue Tracker 3) Wiki (Part 1). In the second part we _ve listed services like a build server, ideas tools and practices around testing and after testing practices like code coverage . Let's move on! Code quality: (Practices …

_This part (4) is contributed by a fellow reader of this blog and experienced professional, Dimitri Stergiou ( linkedin, twitter, blog). Dimitris is working as a Information Security Manager and through this post is eager to highlight the importance of designing and building a secure software solution.Security must …

We will continue to list and elaborate on simple steps towards shaping up a proper development environment. In the first part we have gone through 3 basic tools 1) Code Repository 2) Issue Tracker 3) Wiki (Part 1). Let's move on. Build Server (Continuous Integration): One of the simplest and accurate descriptions on …

I truly believe that it's part of our job, some soft of duty, to evangelize the correct way of working within the company / department we work for. Apart from doing our regular tasks analysis, design and implementation we must work efficiently under certain practices and using tools that have been there for years and …

In the past 2 days I was lucky enough to visit the beautiful city of Prague, invited by Oracle to a mini JUG/ORacle community leaders meeting. If you are interested about the thoughts and ideas of other attendees please follow the #eouc twitter hash tag. I am going to provide my own view on this post. Oracle is more …

As they say, better late than never. I have to admit that for years now I have been typing in the terminal long ant task/target names, when I just wanted to execute or built something. At some point when I had to deal with long names such as jbpm.deploy.proc.dbclean etc I ended up creating aliases (a nice feature of …

In the last 5 years things have been very simple for me when it comes combining my several user profiles in one operating system and hardware platform. The simplicity and the it just works feeling for the home - power user and the convenient feeling that on top of that I can do my day job, coding and making my living …

It was a fascinating afternoon at work trying to properly address an interesting problem. Always very pleasant to discuss and elaborate with some of my colleagues, like Dimitris Sapounas. Many Thanks to Dimitris for the much appreciated discussion and tips.

1. A common problem - Transacted actions, operations within a …

The story: Well it was quite an unusual thing to see. The production system was slowly showing signs of multiple Timer threads (idle) being created- rapidly. The more the execution boosted the more Timer threads created. That is something not good and the Thread Dumps + JVM statistics were indicating that something was …