Agile Team Dynamics : Developers vs Testers/Designers

Yesterday I had a conversations with one of my colleagues Prakash who works as a tester in an Agile project. “So how is it going on?”, I asked. Prakash took a deep breath and said, “Umm…workwise I think I am getting more confident on the application functionality now. However in one of our retrospectives I [...]

Is Scala really Faster than Java?

Recently published paper from Google benchmarking different languages. It shows Scala to be faster compared to Java. I attempted to run the same benchmarks this weekend and am publishing my observations in this Blog. Observations in the blog may have been already made in the Google paper and by the developers involved.

Drupal Webform : Add a dynamic select option list

Ever wanted to have a dynamic option list in your Webform select widget ( checkbox, radiobutton, dropdown ) ? Well, I wanted to load a dynamic list of dates in a Webform and display them as checkboxes. I faced this problem when I was developing a training website where each training class would have different [...]

JBoss Drools – Performance and Memory Internals

The application I am working on nowadays extensively uses JBoss Drools. The application deals with lots of objects on which complex logic is applied in sequence. This part has been developed using JBoss Drools. The keywords here are “lots of objects” and “complex logic in sequence”. These two keywords, when found together, often cause menace [...]