Fast feedback is very important during software development. The Agile Manifesto has several principles that stress the importance of fast feedback which results in validating sooner that what we are building works and is what our customer wants. [Read More]

In last few months I looked into Zipkin which is a ‘Distributed Systems Tracing’ framework implementation open sourced by Twitter and implemented based on the Dapper paper published by Google. [Read More]

I like to use the Maven site plugin to generate documentation for a project because it has the advantage that the documentation is versioned together with the source code and that the site is generated automatically when releasing your software using the Maven release plugin. [Read More]

I see quite some people who use Linux fiddling with external display settings when they have to give a presentation. I have configured my Xubuntu 12.04 to make this a lot easier. [Read More]