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Last 30 Blog Entries

February 17^th, 2025 » Another feature for the Java language
April 12^th, 2024 » Playing with Zig and thinking about its package manager
February 14^th, 2024 » That Ruby and Groovy Language Feature
February 14^th, 2024 » Redirect to Ruby & Groovy entry ^
February 8^th, 2024 » Flask and Static Files
January 24^th, 2024 » Infrastructure as Code DSLs
May 14^th, 2023 » More Syntactic Sugar For Java DSLs
February 15^th, 2023 » Collecting and Charting Multi-Module Nx Jest Coverage
August 14^th, 2022 » Merkleized Public Attestations
August 12^th, 2022 » Principles of Containment in the DOM
April 13^th, 2022 » More on Depth-first recursive vs DAG build technologies
April 8^th, 2022 » Depth-first recursive vs DAG build technologies
February 12^th, 2022 » A Tech Debt balance sheet
October 8^th, 2021 » Sofware dev & delivery project guidelines
April 5^th, 2021 » Modelling Wrongheadedness
February 19^th, 2021 » Software Development Current Reality Trees Starter Pack
February 16^th, 2021 » Embedded Tweets as SVGs
February 16^th, 2021 » Buildless SFC VueJS Applications
January 29^th, 2021 » A Purpose in a Token
January 28^th, 2021 » Dagging On Maven
January 18^th, 2021 » JBehave and Servirtium
January 9^th, 2021 » Personal phishing protection idea (voice calls)
December 6^th, 2020 » Maven Central Meta Model
August 17^th, 2020 » GitLab hosted virtual TBD event - me being interviewed about my book
June 25^th, 2020 » Fixed-price UpWork Contracts
April 23^rd, 2020 » Servirtium use in a client and supplier co-development
April 4^th, 2020 » Risk And Responsibility Should Be An Exchange
March 12^th, 2020 » Value Stream Mapping
January 19^th, 2020 » VCS Nirvana
November 20^th, 2019 » Environment Hell

Go to my archive for a full list of entries going back to 2002.

Speeches, Articles elsewhere, etc

Conference Speaking

OReilly’s OCSCON (Portland OR, 2004): Constructor Dependency Injection with PicoContainer - A post J2EE Nirvana (Portland, OR). My Blog Entry and Slides for the same.
Agile India (Bangalore, 2006): TDD, Refactoring and Dependency Injection (Agile’s answer to “Big Up-Front Architecture” : BUFA) (Bangalore)
Agile India (Bangalore, 2006): Selenium Workshop (Bangalore)
Agile 2009 (Chicago): Selenium and JBehave : A surprisingly successful shotgun wedding (Chicago). Second link. Co-presented with Mauro Talevi.
Perforce MERGE conference (San Francisco, Sept 2014) - Keynote session Trunk-Based Development in the Enterprise - Its Relevance and Economics
Perforce MERGE conference (San Francisco, Sept 2014) - PANEL: Development Patterns for Continuous Delivery
Perforce MERGE conference (San Francisco, Sept 2014) - An unrecorded Workshop on Trunk-Based Development

Event Speaking

June 20, 2012: The IEEE’s Austin Texas Chapter Client-Side MVC: The Next Big Thing for Enterprise Application Development. Video too.
Apr 21, 2016: Panelist discussing "Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners" (with Kevin Behr, and Jabe Bloom) at a Technology Workshop organizased by Hedge Fund Managzine

DZone eZine - article syndication

An article commissioned specifically for DZone (2012) - The Shift Towards Client-Side MVC
DZone syndicates articles from this blog. There are more than a hundred of my articles syndicated, so far.

InfoQ eZine

May 2006: Simple JAVA and .NET SOA interoperability. Commissioned for their very first edition!

Java Developer Journal

Dec 2003: Inversion of Control Rocks. Duplicated here and here. The article was prettier in the print edition, which is sadly no longer available online.

Books

2010: Some of my artwork from a blog entry was used in Jez Humble and Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation.
2015: Some of my artwork from a blog entry was used in Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly's Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale .

Getting in touch

Email is best: paul@hammant.org