Author Archives: Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Lichcast

Posted on 18 Oct 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Hello everybody! This time, I will go a little bit off-topic. A few days ago, I started a podcast. The reason this is off-topic is that the podcast is not related to Java or Agile; it is about a game: … Continue reading →

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Podcasts!

Posted on 14 Oct 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Do you know what podcasts are? If not, shame on you! Podcasts are one of the best things invented in the last few years. And I really mean it. Podcasts are like radio shows, but you can download them, put … Continue reading →

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Quick Jxta Introduction

Posted on 8 Oct 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

According to the classical definition of a peer-to-peer network, peers that are part of this network should be able to run both as a client and as a server. This is what Jxta allows you to do. Jxta is a … Continue reading →

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Sun Tech Days 2008

Posted on 2 Oct 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

This last Monday and Tuesday hold the Sun Tech Days 2008, in São Paulo, Brazil. It was a nice and interesting event, although the last edition was better. The event happened in a good but small venue, Amcham. I had … Continue reading →

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Extreme Programming Explained

Posted on 22 Sep 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

A while ago, I read the book Extreme Programming Explained – Embrace Change (2nd Edition), from Kent Beck. You can find it at amazon.com. In this post I’ll talk a little bit about this book. In this book, Kent Beck … Continue reading →

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A peer-to-peer project

Posted on 12 Sep 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Since a few weeks ago, we’ve been involved in a peer-to-peer project, somewhat deeply – and a little less than this before. Then, in the last two weeks, we started to implement something. Just a small demonstration code (for now), … Continue reading →

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Pair Programming

Posted on 7 Sep 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

This is the way it works: every time anyone in the team needs to develop something, whatever it is, she does it in pairs. This means that two developers sit together and work to solve the same problem. Having done … Continue reading →

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Backpacks

Posted on 3 Sep 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

If you attend to developer conferences frequently, you probably have a lot of backpacks. Usually crap ones, but anyway… And this is my case, of course. The other day I was taking a look at these old stuff and got … Continue reading →

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Value is everything

Posted on 28 Aug 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Hello! My name is Paulo Renato, and I’ll be the writer of this blog =) To get this started, I want to talk about value. There are several other subjects to talk about in the topics that this blog intend … Continue reading →

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