Categories - Paul Hammant's blog

feature toggles under source-control

January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
December 5^th, 2012 » Push or pull of config changes for a production stack
August 14^th, 2012 » App Config using Git and Angular
July 10^th, 2012 » Feature Toggles: App-config workflow using SCM

internet plumbing

December 8^th, 2010 » Extending the life of IPv4
November 1^st, 2010 » Not-Path Cookies
February 22^nd, 2010 » Cookies with regular expression paths
July 27^th, 2006 » Did you send this - another weapon against spam?
September 5^th, 2002 » SPAM

source-control

April 29^th, 2013 » Open Data backed by Source-Control

behavior driven development

September 23^rd, 2011 » Automatic sequence diagrams from BDD-scenario executions
April 5^th, 2011 » Running JBehave/WebDriver Tests on Sauce Labs' Service
March 14^th, 2011 » I think it is time for QTP to die*
February 27^th, 2011 » Introducing Story Navigator

content management systems

March 15^th, 2013 » Article Syndication on GitHub via Subversion
February 24^th, 2013 » Angular in a Jekyll Blog
February 8^th, 2013 » Angular Instead of Media-Queries
January 6^th, 2013 » The sorry state of the anti-software-patents movement
January 2^nd, 2013 » GitHub Pages as a CMS again
August 2^nd, 2012 » App-Help on the Cheap
July 16^th, 2011 » New Blog Technology and Hosting
May 8^th, 2011 » GitHub as a CMS to end CMSes
July 30^th, 2008 » Project Documentation Thoughts
January 15^th, 2007 » Cozmos gets Subversion backend
January 7^th, 2007 » Cozmos- CMS using webdav and Sitemesh
December 7^th, 2006 » An alternative to wikis
April 11^th, 2005 » Content Editing Nirvana
June 11^th, 2004 » Tools with Proprietary Source Control? Be Careful.

extreme programming & practices

November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change
September 1^st, 2011 » Refactoring Experiment - 'least depending and most depended on' components first
May 2^nd, 2005 » Transparency
April 26^th, 2005 » JMock crash course

dzone syndicated

March 19^th, 2013 » The Cost of Unmerge
March 15^th, 2013 » Article Syndication on GitHub via Subversion
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk Based Development (take 2)
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
March 6^th, 2013 » A better Slideshow App, using Angular
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk Based Development at Facebook
February 20^th, 2013 » Continuous Delivery: Professionals vs. Amateurs
February 16^th, 2013 » Misapplying Bayes-Theorem to Agile Versus Waterfall
February 11^th, 2013 » Push or Pull Decorators
February 8^th, 2013 » Angular Instead of Media-Queries
February 4^th, 2013 » The Importance of the DOM
January 31^st, 2013 » Application Development Glass Ceilings Revisited
January 30^th, 2013 » Lotus Notes vs CouchDB
January 18^th, 2013 » Client-Side MVC Roundup
January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
January 6^th, 2013 » Visualizing the Client-Side MVC race
December 22^nd, 2012 » SCM and Key-Value Store Convergence
December 5^th, 2012 » Push or pull of config changes for a production stack
November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change
October 31^st, 2012 » Angular for Designers.
August 2^nd, 2012 » App-Help on the Cheap
June 12^th, 2012 » NoSQL for storage AND relational for reporting
April 15^th, 2012 » Application Development Glass Ceilings
April 13^th, 2012 » The Shift Towards Client-Side MVC
April 12^th, 2012 » Performance Testing Knockout, Angular and Backbone with Selenium2
April 9^th, 2012 » Testing Knockout and Angular with Selenium2
March 12^th, 2012 » The Importance of Design-Mode for Client-Side MVC
February 14^th, 2012 » Client-Side MVC: browser plugins
February 13^th, 2012 » Client-Side MVC frameworks compared
February 10^th, 2012 » Client-Side-MVC applications : best practice (part 1)
February 8^th, 2012 » The document is the single source of truth

trunk based development

May 6^th, 2013 » Google's Scaled Trunk Based Development
April 28^th, 2013 » When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development
April 9^th, 2013 » Scaling Trunk Based Development
April 5^th, 2013 » What is Trunk Based Development?
March 19^th, 2013 » The Cost of Unmerge
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk Based Development (take 2)
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk Based Development at Facebook
September 30^th, 2011 » Branchable Continuous Integration
May 13^th, 2011 » Avoiding 'Big Bang' for Branch By Abstraction
April 18^th, 2011 » Binary Diffing for Increased Release Confidence
April 26^th, 2007 » Introducing Branch By Abstraction

dependency injection

March 20^th, 2013 » A Singleton Escape Plan
November 9^th, 2010 » A Spring Framework Shortcoming
August 20^th, 2010 » .Net Dependency Injection better practice
April 15^th, 2009 » AppEngine's blind-spot
April 7^th, 2009 » Google App Engine for Java with Rich Ruby clients
July 30^th, 2008 » Releasing PicoContainer 2.5 and JRemoting
March 22^nd, 2008 » What brought me to Inversion of Control in the first place ..
March 16^th, 2008 » Crazy Bob and type safety for Dependency Injection
July 22^nd, 2007 » Injecting into Servlets and undoing the stranglehold of web.xml
July 16^th, 2007 » PicoConatiner 2.0 beta released
March 16^th, 2007 » Waffle - Java web action framework with smallest lines of code count for action methods
May 8^th, 2006 » My presentation on Dependency Injection versus Big Up-Front Architecture
January 27^th, 2006 » NanoContainer Presentation
October 19^th, 2004 » Ward on Dependency Injection
October 12^th, 2004 » CDI Book
July 30^th, 2004 » My OSCON PicoNirvana slideshow
June 5^th, 2004 » PicoContainer 1.0 released (finally)
May 1^st, 2004 » O'Reilly's OSCON speaker
April 20^th, 2004 » Logging - just say no.
February 16^th, 2004 » Can the next big language drop public static void main(String[] args) please?
January 24^th, 2004 » Jesktop goes Pico
December 23^rd, 2003 » NMock PicoCompatability
December 23^rd, 2003 » Type3 rollout
December 5^th, 2003 » My IoC article on JDJ.
October 16^th, 2003 » Pico practices for .Net
October 16^th, 2003 » .Net pitfalls
October 7^th, 2003 » PicoContainer is non-threatening
September 17^th, 2003 » App.config in C#
September 3^rd, 2003 » Componentization
September 3^rd, 2003 » Endianism in OSS
September 3^rd, 2003 » Diversity
August 16^th, 2003 » PicoContainer 1.0b1...

refactoring

March 20^th, 2013 » A Singleton Escape Plan
March 20^th, 2013 » Reverse Engineering a DB for DevOps excellence
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation

quality assurance

May 19^th, 2013 » Fluent Selenium Examples
November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change
April 12^th, 2012 » Performance Testing Knockout, Angular and Backbone with Selenium2
April 9^th, 2012 » Testing Knockout and Angular with Selenium2
March 15^th, 2012 » AngularJS and Selenium (Again)
February 1^st, 2012 » Angular and Selenium
December 11^th, 2011 » Sauce Labs: Tunnels or not?
November 14^th, 2011 » Reporting Selenium2 (WebDriver) bugs
September 30^th, 2011 » setContext(..) is back for Selenium2 :-P
September 23^rd, 2011 » Automatic sequence diagrams from BDD-scenario executions
August 31^st, 2011 » Contrasting Selenium 2 locator styles
August 4^th, 2011 » Hiring Selenium QA people
March 14^th, 2011 » I think it is time for QTP to die*
May 8^th, 2006 » My presentation on Dependency Injection versus Big Up-Front Architecture
May 7^th, 2005 » Selenium The Movie / Directors Cut
May 2^nd, 2005 » Selenium: kick ass web testing for free
April 26^th, 2005 » Selenium The Movie
April 28^th, 2004 » WinRunner Best Practices

branch by abstraction, etc

April 5^th, 2013 » What is Trunk Based Development?
March 19^th, 2013 » The Cost of Unmerge
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk Based Development (take 2)
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk Based Development at Facebook
November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change
July 10^th, 2012 » Feature Toggles: App-config workflow using SCM
April 24^th, 2012 » Call to Arms: Average Story Sizes of One Day
September 30^th, 2011 » Branchable Continuous Integration
May 13^th, 2011 » Avoiding 'Big Bang' for Branch By Abstraction
December 7^th, 2010 » Branch By Abstraction Log Jam
April 26^th, 2007 » Introducing Branch By Abstraction

source control

April 9^th, 2013 » Scaling Trunk Based Development
April 5^th, 2013 » What is Trunk Based Development?
April 2^nd, 2013 » Maintained Divergence
March 19^th, 2013 » The Cost of Unmerge
March 15^th, 2013 » Article Syndication on GitHub via Subversion
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk Based Development (take 2)
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk Based Development at Facebook
February 14^th, 2013 » Features I would love source control tools to have
January 29^th, 2013 » Content Syndication using Source Control
January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
January 2^nd, 2013 » GitHub Pages as a CMS again
December 22^nd, 2012 » SCM and Key-Value Store Convergence
December 5^th, 2012 » Push or pull of config changes for a production stack
November 20^th, 2012 » Very Small Data
August 14^th, 2012 » App Config using Git and Angular
August 10^th, 2012 » It is time for a new take on Spreadsheets
August 2^nd, 2012 » App-Help on the Cheap
July 10^th, 2012 » Feature Toggles: App-config workflow using SCM
May 8^th, 2011 » GitHub as a CMS to end CMSes
July 30^th, 2008 » Project Documentation Thoughts
April 26^th, 2007 » Introducing Branch By Abstraction
January 7^th, 2007 » Cozmos- CMS using webdav and Sitemesh
June 11^th, 2004 » Tools with Proprietary Source Control? Be Careful.

continuous delivery

March 19^th, 2013 » The Cost of Unmerge
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk Based Development (take 2)
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk Based Development at Facebook
February 20^th, 2013 » Continuous Delivery: Professionals vs. Amateurs

devops

April 9^th, 2013 » Scaling Trunk Based Development
April 5^th, 2013 » What is Trunk Based Development?
March 20^th, 2013 » Reverse Engineering a DB for DevOps excellence
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk Based Development (take 2)
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk Based Development at Facebook
April 18^th, 2011 » Binary Diffing for Increased Release Confidence

java6 committee participation

March 14^th, 2007 » Announcing Paranamer; an open source answer to the dropping of parameter name access from Java6
June 19^th, 2006 » Derby's arrival in Java 6 surprises me too (and I'm a Java 6 committee member)

software patents

April 27^th, 2013 » What to do about the broken patent system
January 29^th, 2013 » Content Syndication using Source Control
January 6^th, 2013 » The sorry state of the anti-software-patents movement
March 3^rd, 2005 » European Software Patent Spectre

agile

April 28^th, 2013 » When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development
March 20^th, 2013 » Reverse Engineering a DB for DevOps excellence
February 20^th, 2013 » Continuous Delivery: Professionals vs. Amateurs
February 16^th, 2013 » Misapplying Bayes-Theorem to Agile Versus Waterfall
November 12^th, 2012 » Smaller Stories
November 7^th, 2012 » Candidate Stories
November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change
April 24^th, 2012 » Call to Arms: Average Story Sizes of One Day
September 14^th, 2010 » Another UI prototyping technique (for Agile teams)
September 7^th, 2009 » Theory of Constraints and Agile
March 3^rd, 2007 » Simple wars
July 19^th, 2006 » Un-Agile Things
March 19^th, 2005 » Agility Alliance
October 19^th, 2004 » Ward on Dependency Injection
February 12^th, 2004 » Legacy TDD - RPG is not always a role playing game
September 4^th, 2003 » A declaration against Unit Tests
August 7^th, 2003 » Early Practices.
July 28^th, 2003 » Patterns
September 3^rd, 2002 » JIT Software
August 12^th, 2002 » Err away from rewrite

persistence & nosql

January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
November 20^th, 2012 » Very Small Data
June 12^th, 2012 » NoSQL for storage AND relational for reporting

cloud computing

April 15^th, 2009 » AppEngine's blind-spot

ui markup nirvana

March 28^th, 2013 » Interface Builder's alternative Lisp timeline
February 11^th, 2013 » Push or Pull Decorators
February 4^th, 2013 » The Importance of the DOM
January 31^st, 2013 » Application Development Glass Ceilings Revisited
January 12^th, 2013 » RubyMotion in a declarative UI style
January 12^th, 2013 » Categorizing Languages
January 11^th, 2013 » QML and the new Ubuntu phone OS
April 15^th, 2012 » Application Development Glass Ceilings
March 12^th, 2012 » The Importance of Design-Mode for Client-Side MVC
September 12^th, 2011 » What is Dart going to be?
September 26^th, 2009 » Kinetic - Qt based Declarative UI (one to watch)
April 13^th, 2009 » Shoes and Swiby - walking through the example RIA apps
April 7^th, 2009 » Google App Engine for Java with Rich Ruby clients
October 13^th, 2007 » Sweb 3.0
May 9^th, 2007 » JavaFX Mobile is *just* SavaJE aquired by Sun
January 10^th, 2006 » Ruby vs JavaScript for Web3.0
April 16^th, 2004 » My Lotus Notes Shame
March 31^st, 2004 » Thicky- like the web, but with a Groovy thick-client experience
February 16^th, 2004 » Groovy - a convergence language

teams & hiring

July 27^th, 2012 » Three Tier Resumes
August 9^th, 2011 » No One Gives Themselves Bad Ratings (in hiring, apparently)
August 4^th, 2011 » Hiring Selenium QA people
July 25^th, 2011 » My Predictive Index

architecture & app config

January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
November 20^th, 2012 » Very Small Data
August 14^th, 2012 » App Config using Git and Angular
August 2^nd, 2012 » App-Help on the Cheap
July 10^th, 2012 » Feature Toggles: App-config workflow using SCM
June 12^th, 2012 » NoSQL for storage AND relational for reporting
February 6^th, 2012 » Web-app model quandary
February 6^th, 2012 » Previous Web Architectures
November 29^th, 2011 » Cookie Cutter Scaling
November 22^nd, 2011 » Google's accounts system - architectural meaning
September 21^st, 2011 » A forgotten aspect of the Facade Pattern
September 1^st, 2011 » Refactoring Experiment - 'least depending and most depended on' components first
August 6^th, 2011 » Stitz's Five port rule for enterprise application dev
August 6^th, 2011 » Stitz's Five port rule for enterprise application dev
May 12^th, 2006 » Very Simple Java interop with .Net over the wire without Web Services
October 19^th, 2004 » Ward on Dependency Injection
March 25^th, 2004 » Objects, Components, Services and Aspects
August 12^th, 2002 » EJB not the holy grail

client-side mvc

May 19^th, 2013 » Coming to Angular from something else
April 28^th, 2013 » When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development
March 6^th, 2013 » A better Slideshow App, using Angular
February 15^th, 2013 » Slideshow HTML App, using Angular
February 8^th, 2013 » Angular Instead of Media-Queries
January 18^th, 2013 » Client-Side MVC Roundup
January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
January 6^th, 2013 » Visualizing the Client-Side MVC race
October 31^st, 2012 » Angular for Designers.
April 13^th, 2012 » The Shift Towards Client-Side MVC
April 12^th, 2012 » Performance Testing Knockout, Angular and Backbone with Selenium2
April 9^th, 2012 » Testing Knockout and Angular with Selenium2
March 15^th, 2012 » AngularJS and Selenium (Again)
March 12^th, 2012 » The Importance of Design-Mode for Client-Side MVC
March 3^rd, 2012 » Replacing JQuery With Angular
February 14^th, 2012 » Client-Side MVC: browser plugins
February 13^th, 2012 » Client-Side MVC frameworks compared
February 10^th, 2012 » Client-Side-MVC applications : best practice (part 1)
February 8^th, 2012 » The document is the single source of truth
February 6^th, 2012 » Web-app model quandary
February 6^th, 2012 » Previous Web Architectures
February 1^st, 2012 » Angular and Selenium
February 1^st, 2012 » Angular and DreamWeaver
January 29^th, 2012 » (almost) No JavaScript prototyping with Angular in a single source file
January 23^rd, 2012 » UI Technology Paradigm Shift
September 28^th, 2009 » Angular - HTML based Declarative UI (also one to watch)