Having really good developers in a software development team is a nice asset to have, but is not a guarantee of success. Sometimes, companies that aim to hire “only the best”, but disregard other important aspects of team building, fail at their goals and also end up paying premium price…

On one of my first jobs as a Java developer back in 2012, I had the luck to work on a team that was very progressive with coding practices. They introduce me to pair programming and test-driven development among others. I remember back then I read a little book called…

On my article Avoid Explicit null Checks i talked about alternative ways to handle a null value that don’t involve explicitly doing null checks. After writing that article I still felt I needed to emphasize more in explaining that any of those approaches are unnecessary if we Just Don’t Return…

Java exists for so many years and it has a huge adoption in the industry. Over the years many java libraries were written that today we have libraries for almost everything. …

One of the more frustrating things about reading bad written code is that you have to mentally discard a lot of code just to find what is relevant. Who hasn’t at least once in his career at least found a huge large method full of duplications, boilerplate that does more…

During my career as a Java programmer I did read some books, some of them influenced me more and some less. Some I really enjoyed reading and some I didn’t enjoy so much. I am going to take some pictures of them and share my thoughts. Unfortunately due relocating over…

I was helping somebody recently that is learning to code Java, he said if is possible to add a maven project as a dependency in another maven project. I said of course is possible, In this article I am just showing some screenshots from an example I did on his…

I think somebody once explained me how the apple doesn’t want developers to burnout and encourages them to take a break now and then and for that reason they placed the charging socket under the mouse. Honestly I don’t know what to think about that. …

For me pair programming is one of the most fun activities you get to do as a programmer. Also is not just fun, it is a great tool for knowledge sharing and team building. And actually it does improve productivity as opposed to what many wrongly believe. …