Author Archives: Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Store date attributes as primitive longs?

Posted on 10 Feb 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

I was reading the item 24 of this book and, in one of the last paragraphs, the author comments about storing date objects as a primitive long. The text is about making defensive copies of objects in your constructors and … Continue reading →

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Effective Java

Posted on 2 Feb 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Ok, I know. Shame on me. I should have read this book a loooooong time ago. This book is a little bit dated now; it’s from 2002, and the 2nd edition is already out. Anyway, I finally came to it … Continue reading →

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Compressing JavaScript and CSS files with YUI Compressor

Posted on 25 Jan 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Performance is always something to be looking for when developing web applications. One possible approach to improve performance of such applications is to compress our JavaScript and CSS files. This will make them smaller and thus faster to download. A … Continue reading →

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Software Quality and Agile

Posted on 9 Jan 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Often when we talk about agile software development, we mention how important quality is. In this post, I’ll run quickly through some thoughts and practices on how agile tries to guarantee this so-called higher quality. When I first started using … Continue reading →

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The Onslaught of the Tools

Posted on 2 Dec 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Before starting, please be warned: this is more like a philosophical post than anything else. I might say something in a sentence and then negate it in the next one. If you are ok with that, have fun reading on! … Continue reading →

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Maratona JBoss

Posted on 17 Nov 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Hi! Just a quick update, to bring some life to this blog, before it gets covered in dust! This last Saturday hold the “Maratona JBoss”. It was an event organized by Tempo Real Eventos here in Brazil. It was very … Continue reading →

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Mercurial workflow

Posted on 8 Nov 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

A few days ago, I posted here about the basics of working with mercurial. A little after that, Tor Norbye, from Sun Microsystems and The Java Posse, posted about his workflow with mercurial, a few problems he had with it, … Continue reading →

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Mercurial basics for CVS users

Posted on 5 Nov 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

We just made available here the initial code (only a draft right now) for the peer-to-peer project mentioned in this previous post. One of the things we decided to do differently from previous projects is to use an alternative approach … Continue reading →

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Java Café

Posted on 29 Oct 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

A few weeks ago I went to Belgium, for an European Union project revision. While I was there, I saw this: This may not be new to European people, but certainly is to me! Nice, Java Café! And at lunch, … Continue reading →

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Getting the data out of the tests

Posted on 23 Oct 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Hello everybody! A few days ago, while I was searching for ways to improve the tests in our projects, I found an interesting article with some ideas. The main concept was to make the tests behavior, data and actual implementation … Continue reading →

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