Latest News from Dan North

Client/Server Is Not the Only Fruit

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST

The vast majority of Java enterprise applications are architected along the lines of Sun's original PetStore showcase application. Rather than seeing this as a market stall displaying all the J2EE goods on offer, developers took it as a blueprint for enterprise applications.

Writing Testable Systems

Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:00:00 EST

Complex enterprise applications are generally hard to maintain, and risky and difficult to change. As a new developer on a team, a large legacy code base is often difficult to understand, especially when the code has evolved over a long period and new functionality has been grafted onto an existing application.

Test-Driven Development Is Not About Testing

Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:00:00 EST

I am always on the look out for good questions to ask candidates in an interview. Not the 'How many oranges can I fit in this room?' kind of nonsense (the stock response to which is apparently 'with or without us standing in it?').