Clint Shank's Blog

Are you eager to get your team together for a lunch-n-learn with free pizza ( and beer ), but can't come up with any ideas on which to p...

Originally published 25 Nov 2009 Have you ever had to override a default project setting in Maven and didn't know the exact setting?  ...

Originally published 17 Nov 2009 Man, every time I go to write some Java code these days, I just cringe at all the effort. public class ...

Originally published 8 Sep 2009 The web site for the 3rd book in the 97 Things series recently went public.  This one is targeted at pro...

Originally published 28 May 2009 Recently, I attended a talk by Neal Ford .  He was talking about a couple of metrics you can combine to i...

Originally published 2 Mar 2009 I recently received my copy of 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know .  I'm honored to be inc...

Originally published 13 Nov 2008 Subversion is the de facto version control system of the day, but Git  is the rising star.  More and mor...

Originally published 9 Aug 2008 There's been some talk recently about essence and ceremony, particularly regarding JVM programming lan...

Originally published 28 Apr 2008 I just returned from this past weekend's No Fluff Just Stuff conference in Reston, Virginia.  As alw...

Originally published 17 Apr 2008 redsolo has implemented a version of The Continuous Integration Build Game .  It's a Hudson plugi...