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Comment by Muhammet Ali YURTCİCEK on October 19, 2012 at 1:00am

 

Challenging the Diabolical Developer: A Conversation with JavaOne
Rock Star Martijn Verburg

by Janice J. Heiss

 

 

Martijn Verburg

Few developers have done more to move and shake the Java community in recent years than Martijn Verburg. He was voted by his peers as a JavaOne Rock Star for his "Diabolical Developer" session at the JavaOne 2011 conference, in which he identified some of the worst practices Java developers are prone to engage in. He is co-leader of the thriving London Java Community (LJC)—a Java User Group (JUG) that has more than 2,500 members and a seat on the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC)—and he leads the global effort for the JUG "Adopt a JSR" and "Adopt OpenJDK" programs. He is a co-organizer of UK Graduate Developers, a moderator on CodeRanch.com, and the community leader for PCGen (one of the world's largest free and open source software [FOSS] projects) and Ikasan (a recently open sourced Enterprise Integration Platform [EIP] framework from Mizuho International).

He is currently CTO at jClarity, a startup focusing on automating optimization for Java and Java Virtual Machine (JVM)–related technologies, and he is a product advisor at ZeroTurnaround. He co-authored, with Ben Evans, The Well-Grounded Java Developer, published by Manning and, as a leading authority on technical team optimization, he is in high demand at major software conferences.

Verburg was born in Holland, grew up and received his education in New Zealand, and currently resides in London.

Oracle Technology Network: You were voted by your JavaOne peers as a JavaOne Rock Star for your session on the diabolical developer, in which you identified some "diabolical" practices that Java developers engage in. Tell us about some of the bad practices.

Verburg: I'll refrain from going overboard, but here are the ones that have left me shaking my head in disbelief most often:

“Software development is far more a social activitythan a technical one; most projects fail because of communication issues and social dynamics, not because of a bad technical decision.” Martijn Verburg JavaOne Rock Star

• A lack of communication: Software development is far more a social activity than a technical one; most projects fail because of communication issues and social dynamics, not because of a bad technical decision. Sadly, many developers never learn this lesson.
• No source control: Some developers simply store code in local file systems and e-mail the code in order to integrate their changes; yes, this still happens.
• Design-driven design: Some developers are inclined to cram every design pattern from the Gang of Four (GoF) book into their projects. Of course, by that stage, they've actually forgotten why they're building the software in the first place.

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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/martijn-1865077.html

Comment by Muhammet Ali YURTCİCEK on October 19, 2012 at 12:54am

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