Coding Clarity

Writing simple, clear and readable code.

Browsing Posts published in April, 2008

Recently I have been working a lot with some people I would call “Old School Developers”. They were brought up in the “glory days” of the pre-internet era of development. I have been tasked with teaching an old dog new tricks. In this case, I am teaching Web Services development using Apache CXF and the [...]

I’ve decided to use Apache Maven for building the code for my new project. So far I have had a love-hate relationship with Maven. If you don’t know what maven is, the folks over at Apache say Maven is … “… a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project [...]

There are many different types of open source software licenses. These range from the Apache License which is very commercial friendly to the GPL License which is not. In a nutshell, the reason the GPL is not friendly towards commercial software is because of the requirement that anything using the GPL code must in tern [...]