Technology Cafe

Are you obsessed with testing ?

Rajiv Narula — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:08:36 +0000

I stumbled upon a presentation by Elisabeth (testobsessed). Few minutes into the presentation, I started taking notes – so that I could share them with rest of my team. By the end of the presentation, I figured it was better posted as a blog post. I hope it will encourage you to hear the presentation for yourself. So [...]

def test = new BDDMadeEasy(Selenium,EasyB,Groovy)

Rajiv Narula — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:00:20 +0000

Last night, I gave a presentation at the Greater Boston Selenium User Group. The title of my presentation was “def test = new BDDMadeEasy(Selenium,EasyB,Groovy)“. It was fun . Enjoyed interacting with fellow Selenium enthusiasts. Excellent questions. Hopefully got some people excited to give BDD a try. You can view the slides at slideshare. And you [...]

2011: A recap and looking forward to the year ahead

Rajiv Narula — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:39:29 +0000

In no particular order- following is a recap of things that I did last year and things that I am looking forward to doing next year. Last year:2011… Wrote 4 blog posts “Advice from my son” and “Deadlock between JVM and database” and “Why I think commitment is overrated” and “Scrum nut” . Some inspired controversies [...]

Advice from my son

Rajiv Narula — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:14:50 +0000

Let me put it this way – the day did not go very smoothly at work. Anyways, Steve and I managed to close the day with couple of laughs and I headed back home close to 8:00 PM. I was determined to make the best of what remained of the evening and thought Kung-fu Panda 2 may [...]

Deadlock between the JVM and the Database

Rajiv Narula — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:13:39 +0000

One of the most interesting problems I worked on was a deadlock between the JVM and the Database. This blog post is a case-study of some sorts. I will talk about the symptoms we saw, how we analysed the problem, and the solution. Technologies involved A J2EE web application running on Tomcat Oracle Database Remind [...]

Why I think commitment is overrated

Rajiv Narula — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:05:26 +0000

There is a team which commits to 10 features but ends up delivering 11 features. In the next release cycle (Scrum practitioners: read sprint), the same team commits to 11 features and ends up delivering 12. Now consider this… Another (a very similar) team commits to 15 features and delivers 12. And in the next [...]

Everyone knows about Scrum-buts , but what about Scrum-nuts ?

Rajiv Narula — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:09:33 +0000

Everyone knows about Scrum-buts , but what about Scrum-nuts ? Since I could not find any reference to this term on the first page of search results on Google , I am going to take the liberty of offering the first definition: “Scrum-nut is a person- who is basically nuts about Scrum- to an extent [...]

Design and Architectural strategies from Qcon

Rajiv Narula — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:09:51 +0000

This is my third in series of “reporting” from Qcon. My earlier posts are here and here. In this post, I will briefly talk about few Design and Architectural strategies that I came across at Qcon. Some of these were new to me and others I have used\known in some form or other for sometime, but [...]

Released: DBDeploy for Grails plugin

Rajiv Narula — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:40:52 +0000

I came across DBDeploy when I attended a tutorial on Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and Martin Fowler at QCon. I immediately liked it ! I had been working on designing something very similar for our deployments at work. It had all I needed and probably more. I have also been working on Grails for quite [...]

Tools from QCon

Rajiv Narula — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:00:01 +0000

This is my second in series of reporting my impressions from QCon. (You can see my earlier post here.) There, I came across many tools which frankly, I didn’t know even know existed. Some of these were exhibited by sponsors – hence are commercial products. Others came as a reference in some session or in [...]