People are like Water

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 [...]

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New Feature of JUnit: Rules

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 [...]

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