The hype problem If you’ve spent any time on LinkedIn lately, you’ve encountered two very different camps. One is convinced that AI will make developers obsolete within five years. The other insists that tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot are...
I’ll be honest – my first encounter with Java in 1999 wasn’t love at first sight. It was during a university distributed systems course, and coming from a background in assembler and C, Java felt bloated, slow, and frankly untrustworthy. That “automa...
The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing. -Albert Einstein Unexpected events tend to occur. This summer, I worked in technical support for a government system here in Sweden. The system is quite old, creat...
We have many principles for writing better more maintainable software, but still end up with a tangled mess. Most of us have heard about the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), Robert C Martin expressed this principle as “A class should have only...
Fixing performance problems can be tricky. I joined a new team last spring, and my first assignment was to investigate and fix some performance problems they were having. Most of the reported performance problems were related to a complicated functio...
Feedback is at the core of agile development. We strive to improve and shorten the feedback loops wherever we can. We do code reviews, ask for customer feedback, and run automatic test suites to locate regressions in functionality and performance. Ho...
Physical training Physical training, also known as exercise or fitness training, is crucial to maintain a healthy lifestyle and improve overall well-being. It involves engaging in planned physical activities targeting specific muscle groups, enhancin...
In this earlier post, I recommended some books that have helped me in my career as a software developer. I was asked if I had any books to recommend for Java developers. The books in this post are listed in the recommended reading order based on your...
I wanted to share some recommendations on books that I have enjoyed reading. They have given me valuable information that has helped me in my career as a software developer.
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