I have always found that the burn-up and burn-down charts are very informative and fit to the iterative story-based development very well. Every project that I work on, I will try to figure out differ… more →
Development at GuidewireShane Duan wrote 1 month ago: I have always found that the burn-up and burn-down charts are very informative and fit to the iterat … more →
Carson Gross wrote 6 months ago: My hatred of method overloading has become a running joke at Guidewire. My hatred is genuine, icy ho … more →
Alan Keefer wrote 1 year ago: . . . but this is pretty egregious. I got so sick of writing my own partition code in Java (since I … more →
Alan Keefer wrote 1 year ago: Type inference is a subject near and dear to our heart here at Guidewire; one of the primary feature … more →
Alan Keefer wrote 1 year ago: Starting with Java 1.5, the Java compiler started automatically taking care of converting boxed vers … more →
Carson Gross wrote 1 year ago: Note:I’ve rewritten this post based on feedback from Neal and Ted in the comments. I’ve … more →
Alan Keefer wrote 1 year ago: I just found myself writing the following tiny snippet of GScript: print("Evaluating group with form … more →
Carson Gross wrote 1 year ago: In Keef’s post pointing out some problems with generics in java, he made a quick mention of en … more →
Alan Keefer wrote 1 year ago: Plenty of ink has already been spilled over the issue of Java generics, so perhaps I’m just ad … more →
Carson Gross wrote 1 year ago: A few weeks ago when I was writing some java code in the GScript runtime, I came across a situation … more →
Alan Keefer wrote 1 year ago: It’s generally accepted wisdom by now that giving client objects direct access to data stored … more →
Alan Keefer wrote 1 year ago: Continuing with the language comparison theme, I’ll look at another common list processing ope … more →
Alan Keefer wrote 1 year ago: In my spare time I’ve started to learn Python (I’m working through the most excellent, a … more →
Alan Keefer wrote 1 year ago: There was a post by Bruce Eckel on Artima this week that asked the question of whether or not closu … more →
Carson Gross wrote 1 year ago: You may wonder how we get all those great closure-based methods like findAll() and sortBy() onto cla … more →
Carson Gross wrote 1 year ago: Here is how you sum up an array of integers in java: int[] values = ... int sum = 0; for( value : va … more →
Carson Gross wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes you need to get the last element in an array. Here is how you do it in java: S … more →
Carson Gross wrote 1 year ago: Sorting a list of employees by salary in java: List<Employees> someEmployees = getEmployees(); … more →
Carson Gross wrote 1 year ago: Guidewire is a kick-ass company is many, many ways, but the most important way it kicks ass for engi … more →