Category Archives: agile

The Tale of An Operationally Excellent Team

Posted on 22 May 2020 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

“Based on a True Story” Join us for this short and boring novel of team work, excellence and success. The Team It all started on a Thursday morning. The team was happy: an essential refactoring went live the day before, … Continue reading →

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A plea for small Pull Requests

Posted on 27 Sep 2017 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

A Plea For Small Pull Requests Pull Requests (PRs) are the norm today when it comes to common software development practices in teams. It is the right way to submit code changes so that your peers can check them out, … Continue reading →

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TDD Talk at UMC

Posted on 14 May 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Yesterday I gave a speech, with two friends, about Test Driven Development at UMC, here in Mogi das Cruzes – SP – Brazil. The talk was nice, and this post is just to thank Claudinho and Fabio, the two friends … Continue reading →

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Testing XML data in your unit tests with XMLUnit

Posted on 23 Feb 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Once upon a time I had to compare two pieces of XML data. And it was good. Well, actually, it wasn’t. Comparing two sets of XML can be really tough. Initially, I considered doing so by hand. Bad, bad idea, … Continue reading →

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Pair Programming as a Motivator

Posted on 5 Feb 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Everyone has ups and downs. Maybe a fight with a significant other, or a problem with family, it doesn’t matter, brought you down. I went through something in this line a while ago, although for a completely different reason. But … Continue reading →

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Program-ME Dojo Globalcode

Posted on 5 Jan 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Quick post, to bring back some life to this blog =) About one month ago, on December 10th, Globalcode organized its first programming DOJO. The topic was Program-ME, Globalcode’s version of Arduino. The idea of a dojo is to try … Continue reading →

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TDC – The Developers Conference 2009 – day 1

Posted on 10 Nov 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

So, one more Java event happened this last weekend down here in Brazil. The Developers Conference, organized by Globalcode, took place on the 6th and 7th of November in São Paulo, and it is going also to Florianópolis (9th) and … Continue reading →

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Falando em Java 2009

Posted on 29 May 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Hi! This post is one more about Java related events! Two weeks ago, we had the OpenTDC 2009. And this last Sunday, we had the Falando em Java (Speaking Java) 2009. Those two were very busy weeks! As OpenTDC, Falando … Continue reading →

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OpenTDC 2009

Posted on 23 May 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

This last Sunday I went to the OpenTDC event, organized by Globalcode. It took place at the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, down here in São Paulo, Brazil. Like the one that happened last year, it was very nice. The event started … Continue reading →

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Continuous deployment

Posted on 13 Mar 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Continuous deployment. How does that sound to you? Crazy? Beautiful? Difficult? For me, its every one those and than some more. I recently translated this InfoQ article about such topic, and it really made me think about the idea. Maybe … Continue reading →

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