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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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The Developers Conference 2011

Posted on 14 Jul 2011 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

From July 6 to 10 happened The Developers Conference 2011 down here in São Paulo. The other editions were really good and, better, this one topped all of them. It was a really fun and productive event. I had the … 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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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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Infoq contributions

Posted on 12 Mar 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

A few months ago I started to contribute to the brazilian version of the InfoQ website. My contributions consist basically of translations of some of the articles published in the english version. If you are interested, I created a page … 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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