Attention: This article was published over 3 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.The movement to support local businesses and providers has steadily gained momentum across various industries, and the software development sector is no exception. If …
Testing the Current Date/Time in Spring and Java
Attention: This article was published over 3 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.How often in Java services do we need to use the current date and time? Most of us would agree we use it quite …
The Mythical Person Month: A Lesson On Managing Expectations & Meeting Deadlines
One of my favorite things about the life journey that I find myself on is that I’m always learning. Every. Single. Day.
Some days I learn something new… most days I learn something new, actually. But then there are the days when I am reminded of something I learned years ago but have somehow forgotten for a time.
The Mythical Person Month is one such topic. It is a distinct and important lesson that I have learned many times now it seems.
Want to Get Better at Java? Go Old School.
So youโre a Java programmer, and you want to take your skills to a higher level. Iโm going to suggest you take a project and go old school.
Over the course of this blog, Iโll explain what โgoing old schoolโ means as well as give you some tips and tricks to get started. Weโre going to step away from most modern tools and go back to the basics, so you gain a deeper understanding of what Java is and how it works. By the end, you should be well on your way to improving your Java skill set.
Monitoring SQL Server Agent Jobs with Spring Batch
In this blog post, I will demonstrate a technique to query the status of a SQL Server Agent job that executes the SSIS package. SQL Server Agent scripts are asynchronous in nature. This can make it difficult to make code decisions based on the execution status of a script of this type.