Generics just landed in Java 5 and they already changed the way my code reads in the editor. Before this release we lived with raw types. Collections gave back Object, so every read needed a cast and every cast was a tiny gamble. The code worked until it did not…
Category: Development Practices
Agile methodologies, CI/CD, DevOps, and team workflows. The processes and practices that enable teams to ship quality software efficiently.
Apache Ant for Legacy Pipelines
A quick story from the build room Yesterday a teammate spent an hour chasing a missing jar only to realize the classpath was set on his laptop but not on the build server. We moved the rule into Apache Ant and the next run just worked. No more tribal lore….