Alex Collins

I've been finessing the way that I deal with tasks over the last few years, having tried GTD and found that it needed some tweaks. I think this is normal, any methodology might need changing to adapt to different people and roles. Specifically:

• All work comes in via my email inbox, or verbally.
• I manage a team, so sometimes I need to be aware of what they're working on.
• I need to check for new email about once an hour in case of urgent emails (I can't just read it once a day).

A quick plugin for Maven using Apache BSF to execute scripts:

https://github.com/alexec/script-maven-plugin

Just been reading Thoughworks tech radar from last October. Some interesting things in there:

- Log as data
- Vert.x - a great looking small web server
- Raik and Datomic data stores

http://www.thoughtworks.com/articles/technology-radar-october-2012

1. Unzip the jars

unzip app.zip -d dist
mkdir classes
find dist -name '*.jar' -exec unzip -B {} -d classes ';'

mkdir -p src/main/java
cd classes
find . -name '*.class' | while read F ; do D=../src/main/java/$(dirname $F); mkdir -p $D ; jad -o -s java -d $D $F ; done
cd ..

This is easy, it is supported out of the box.

Step 1 - make sure each mojo has the JavaDoc, this will be used to generate your help files. E.g.:

Good and detailed post:

http://insidecoding.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/code-review-guidelines/

I've just watch a really good InfoQ video from James Lewis at Thoughtworks. As you might expect from Thoughtworks, it has some stuff about CD, but also some great ideas an building large systems from small, somewhat independent components.

As a brain dump: