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The power of Tags and Comments
2020-09-08 in 2020
A software architect models customer domains and maps them to excellent software constructs. The solution shall support future customer groups and expand to store additional information. Tags, also called labels, provide an informal ontology to …
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Entities, Identifiers, External identifiers and Names
2020-08-24 in 2020
A software architect models customer domains and maps them to powerful software abstractions [1]. Soon you correlate internal efficient identifiers, meaningful external identifiers, and domain entities. You enjoy long conversations with the …
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A Journey Implementing Digital Invoices
2020-07-15 in 2020
Our company has the ambition to digitize all our workflows since our inception. We proudly state we never bought a printer or a fax machine. Analog machines should become obsolete in the digital age. Companies should be more environment-aware and …
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Legacy Systems Refactoring
2020-06-01 in 2020
In computer programming and software design, code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing computer code without changing its external behavior. Refactoring is intended to improve the design, structure, or implementation of the software …
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Gradle 6.4 Finally Supports Java Modules
2020-05-01 in 2020
Java 9 release introduced the concept of modules within the Java language. Java 9 was released in September 2017. Until now, creating Java modules was quite cumbersome and Gradle did only offer limited support through external plugins. With the …
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Agile Component Design
2020-04-17 in 2020
You are an experienced programmer. You master your primary technology stack and systematically write clean code. Your team recognized your merits and asked you to take ownership of whole packages in the application. You are now responsible for …
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Java Records Are Here - Available in JDK 14
2020-03-31 in 2020
We need justification not to use immutable objects in our solutions, rather than an affirmative reason to use them. Records provide a first-class means for modeling data-only aggregates. They have been available in Java since the release of JDK 14. …
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How Agile Collaborators Learn
2020-02-29 in 2020
Most products are developed by a team, and these achievements are the fruit of teamwork. Software product development is now agile, and most often uses the Scrum approach. Just putting a bunch of people together in the same open office will not …
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Calibrate Your Agile Approach: Bill of Rights
2020-01-06 in 2020
When eXtreme Programming first came out, one expectation it worked hard to set is who gets to make what calls on software projects. For example, business has the right to know how long something is going to take and when it can expect things to be …
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A Journey to be a Digital Company - tangly llc
2019-12-02 in 2019
I long dreamed of working in a digital environment. I shall no longer print out a form, sign it by hand and use snake mail to deliver it to the receiving party. All company documents are stored electronically. I can search any artifacts by content …