Peter Axelsson

Software professional working in StockholmSweden. Inspired by ExtremeProgramming (and other AgileMethodologies), PragmaticProgrammer, BusinessComponentApproach

Current areas of interest:

• Requirement Engineering
• Cognitive Science
• Reasons why software projects fail

Books I like:

• Writing Effective Use Cases
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Refactoring
• Business Component Factory
• The Design of Everyday Things
• A whack on the side of the head - how to become more creative
• Extreme Programming

Pages I've started:

• TaskCompleteDefinition
• PetStore
• CheckStyle
• MockImplementationBecomesComponentInterface

Wiki links I recommend, or just want to remember:

• OnceAndOnlyOnce
• HowToDeferSchemaChanges
• AtsDiary
• ClearCaseComparedToCompetition

• PatternsForTeaching
• WhatIsConsciousness

WWW links I recommend:

• http://www.jadcentral.com
• http://www.theserverside.com (primary source for news regarding J2EE / .NET)
• http://jakarta.apache.org
• http://www.c-sharpcorner.com
• http://www.dbasupport.com (DBA How-To)
• http://www.rgagnon.com/bigindex.html (Java How-To)
• http://www.precisejava.com/ (Java performance tuning)
• http://www.stickyminds.com (QA)
• http://www.stqemagazine.com (Testing, QA, Requirements)

• http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm (logic and argumentation)
• http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html (logic and argumentation)

Tools I recommend:

• BeanShell (tool for scripting java objects with java syntax, but when to use???)
• JakartaAnt (tool for automating the build process)
• CheckStyle (tool for checking coding conventions)
• JiveLint (tool for checking bad coding)
• JUnit (testing framework)
• P6Spy (fake jdbc driver enables logging of sql)
• JESS (java rule engine)
• XDoclet (tool for easier ejb development)
• JBoss (open source ejb server)
• MySql (open source db server)
• Torque (open source o/r mapping)
• JMeter (loadtesting tool, open source)
• AraxisMerge (difftool, can do 3-way merge)
• Eclipse (open source java ide, very very good!!)
• Macker [http://innig.net/macker/] (tool for checking that architectural rules are being followed)

People I don't know, but writes some interesting stuff here on the wiki or in books:

• JohnDaniels
• JoshuaKerievsky
• AlanWills
• KrisJohnson
• NatPryce
• KyleBrown
• MartinFowler
• AlistairCockburn
• KentBeck
• RonJeffries
• more to come

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