Category: Software development

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a continuation of my earlier post of Tree, recursive function and my dumb mistake. As I said in my last post, my solution was to create hash maps (singleton) to store those for the session. The main motivation was to help out the performance. But I found out it backfired on me, a

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May 28, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutes Or am I? 🙂 I think I’m a pragmatic programmer. Note this is also a book title I read, by pragmatic (note not agile), I think it’s about balance between software quality, effort and delivery date. It’s also about releasing software with known risks (including bugs) 🙁 I thought about this as I started practicing

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May 8, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute So I was able to fix that performance problem I mentioned in my previous post. But I inadvertently introduced a new problem in my previous fix. And here is the gist of how I did: while (some condition) { if(some other condition) { … return; } } Guess what, I was able to put it

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April 28, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute Tree data structure is fairly common in software development, and luckily I have quite a bit experience working on those in my career. I started working on this as I was working for UGS/Siemens PLM Software, and I was involved in the development of XML based data adapter for CAD data exchange, a key piece

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April 26, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 02-19-2021) spring.io Testing the Web Layer Mockito Example with Best Practices JUnit and Mockito : Best Practices, Do’s and Don’ts (Original) Test Driven Development (TDD) is getting popular these days. I had opportunity to being exposed it recently. I am not new to unit test. In the software company I worked for 8 years,

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April 25, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is the common saying I heard a lot when I started worked for a software company on development. I can list some of the pros and cons of fix it. Pros Architecture chaos: if not fixing it, basically as the software ages, per the “broken windows” theory, people would just throw in changes to

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March 31, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the pretty reports? About a year ago, I worked for a client for an iOS project. The developer I worked with is very enthusiastic about unit testing, test driven development. I recall he used some tool (lcov, stands for line coverage), and set up the build script such that the unit test and lcov

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February 26, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m back to Java world again, after about 2 years stint on Objective-C and iOS development. I’m not new to Java land, as I have done Java work between 2010 and 2011, for 2 years. My personal learning experience: JSF => Spring MVC (jspx is still very similar): I have done JSF, which is a

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February 15, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes In my 13+ years of software development career, I have done both. So which one do I prefer? This is a bit like asking my daughter: who do you like more, mommy or daddy? (I will reveal my daughter’s answer at the end.) I think both are interesting work, and both could be challenging. If

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February 7, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 08-Dec-2020) Things I learned today (or tomorrow am 🙂 One team can have at most two distribution certs In Xcode sign in as agent without the (mail.com or gmail.com after @) because it appears my apple id is just the id without all the @ + dot com stuff. That alone cost me probably

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February 6, 2013
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