Published at: 10:10 am - Sunday October 11 2009
I found a new (at least for me) metaphor: people are like water. The cool thing about this metaphor is: When you manage people you can use it to learn from the engineers building channels and dams. So here are the things you can learn: If you want to stop a certain behavior, build a [...]
Published at: 12:10 pm - Sunday October 04 2009
I am always surprised how many unknown feature hide in a supposedly simple library. Todays example is JUnit. When inspecting the newest version (4.7) I noted an annotation I hadn’t noticed before: @Rule. WTF? I am looking at a testing framework and not at a rules engine, am I? So naturally I tried to find [...]