Executable Design

Good Software Design is Executable

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Interviewing Developers

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My preference is to have the candidate bring in their own laptop if they have one, or to use one of ours if they don’t, and not to work...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Interface or Abstract Class?

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I primarily write server code in Java, for context. I write interfaces in 2 primary situations: Any time I need a contract between ma...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Sometimes You've Just Gotta Draw a Line

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I needed a short line in my HTML UI.  Turns out, you can do it with CSS. Here's the code that draws the specific line I needed: <d...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

An Unreasonable Man

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I was having a frank discussion with my boss this evening, trying to work out what's keeping our tiny development team from performing b...
Monday, July 23, 2012

A Scout is Trustworthy

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I was an Eagle scout.  I also held all the posts a troop of Boy Scouts of America could have, up to and including Scoutmaster. My folks made...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

OO, Ward, and Creole

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Some interesting reading if you care about code: Some solid reading on what OO means, and how to test it: http://www.drdobbs.com/testing/...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Software Fragility

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I've been working on the same medium-sized application since March--about 6 months. It's been frustrating. The app is built in JBoss...
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Jerry Andrews
I'm a husband, step-dad, and software developer, designer, and architect, in roughly that order. I've been an engineer, and I'm working to add engineering rigor to the software development process. I've been delivering software professionally since 1980.
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