The job of a software developer

24 days ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

This is a great post. It is the kinda post that makes you want to jump up and shout “Listen to this guy!”. Software development is a weird job, I have been doing it for almost 10 years and everyday …

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Experiments with PhoneGap and Sencha Touch

about 1 month ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

Lately I have been interested in learning some mobile programming. With so many options it was difficult to decide which technologies and frameworks to use. With a little advice and some experimentation I finally selected PhoneGap and Sencha Touch. PhoneGap …

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A weekend with CouchDB, Solr and Torquebox

about 1 month ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

Ok, I am lying it was actually a long weekend and I had something working beforehand (but that was before I knew Ruby or really understood how to write decent Ruby code, I am just a little bit better now). …

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Configuring nginx with JBoss / Tomcat

about 1 month ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

So you have brought a new EC2 machine. You are a Java / JRuby / Scala developer and you are all excited to put your site out to the world. Problem is your server JBoss / Tomcat runs on port …

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jQuery flavored CoffeeScript

3 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

After much discussion, Rails 3.1 included CoffeeScript by default. The inclusion of CoffeeScript in Rails is a testament of the quality and popularity of CoffeeScript. So in a Rails 3.1 application if you do – bundle exec rails g controller …

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And then there was Closure

7 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

A while back when I introduced Ruby to a few fellow Java developers they were intrigued by Closures / Lambdas. For most Java developers its difficult to understand what the hullabaloo around Closures and Functional programming is. What more, one …

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The problem is choice

8 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

One of my favorite dialog exchange in movies is the one between Neo and the Architect towards the end of Matrix Reloaded. Who can forget – “Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to …

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Using Spring for Scheduling Tasks

8 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

One of the common requirements we face as developers is to do things in a scheduled manner. For example, check database for change every 10 mins and do something if a change has occurred or send emails at a specific …

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Excel manipulation and testing in Java

8 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

In my current project I am doing a lot of Excel manipulation using Apache POI and Jacob COM libraries. One of the first challenges I faced was to write test cases that could read these Excel files and process them. …

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Installing Oracle on Linux (Ubuntu / Fedora)

8 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

Oracle DB is a weird animal. One might think that it being one of the most used databases in the world (read enterprise), it might be easy to install. But every time I try to install it I end up …

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Putting CouchDB and Rails on the Cloud

9 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

CouchDB and Rails on the Cloud View more presentations from rockyjaiswal

Integrating Google Re-Captcha with a Rails app

9 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

So you want to use re-captcha in your Rails application to avoid bots spamming your site, look no further - In your Rails 3 gem file add the gem “scaffoldhub” Do a – bundle install Lets say you want to …

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The real purpose of a “Sprint Goal”

10 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

The folks who thought of Scrum were really smart guys. I don’t say this because Scrum has worked for me but I say this because the more I think of Scrum, the more I appreciate it. For example, why does …

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Views from across the table

10 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

A few weeks back, I had the unique opportunity to visit my old employer, this time however as a customer. It was good to hear some old terms which I last heard when I worked there. It also got me …

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Thoughts of the week : 24 – 30 April

10 months ago | Rocky Jaiswal: Still learning ... Thoughts of an Agile developer

Busy busy last week. But still got a lot of time to think on my way back home. Only two things that you should aim for – happy teams and delighted customers. Choose any process that gives you these. Why …

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