Approaches to testing

I have learned testing in the hard way. To be honest my first tests probably didn't test anything. Unfortunately there was no one around me who could help me with it so I was on my own. After few weeks I was able to write unit tests that actually check behaviour of my classes. Green bar really made me proud. However my unit tests at this point were really complex and hard to maintain. I knew that something is missing in my tests and I need to learn more. It was few years ago. Today I know way more about testing but I'm still learning. My latest lesson comes from Oredev Conference.

Java synchronizers - Countdownlatch

Package java.concurrency contains many high level APIs for working with concurrency. It has been added to JDK in version 5. It's quite long time ago. However many developers still use raw Thread and synchronization. I'm pretty sure it is not because they like it but more likely they don't know what kind of goodies they have at their disposal. So in order to spread the word I would like to present Java synchronizers and how to work with them.

Over 1000 views !

I'm really glad to announce that on the last Friday JVM Suburbs exceeded over 1000 views ! For that reason I would like to share with you some statistics, plans for the future and thank the people who helped me.

10 things you can do to better lead your agile team

I'm a developer and I'm proud of that. However I know that sooner or later the time will come to lead some project. That's why I'm always observing my managers and trying to learn from them. But learning only from local managers is not enough for me. I'm curious about top management trends in the world, what good practices managements rock stars presents on conferences. I have found several good talks about it and I would like to share with you one of them.

London Droidcon 2012 review

Month ago I had a pleasure to participate in Droidcon 2012 in London. For me it was new and very exciting experience for two reasons. First - it was my first big international event in which I participated. Second - I was a volunteer and I had possibility to see how such a conference looks from a backstage.