This post demonstrates how to use a Groovy script to transform a Maven project property. Such a transformation is sometimes necessary, for example, for transforming a Windows-style path to Unix. For myself, I formalized this solution while trying to install a jar in PostgreSQL automatically during the artifact deployment phase.

Name the most used Meta-Tool of all times – rock, hammer, computer? But which iPhone app do you use the most? Have you driven a nail with your phone?

This tutorial decribes one way to configure a Maven project to use Weblogic-specific goals to deploy a web service as a WAR and to generate a client for that web service.

During an interview at the Better Software conference this week, I mentioned that I thought maintaining a single list of work prioritized by the business was important for our industry to improve. The following text is an excerpt, in first draft form, from chapter 2, “Architecture Integrity”, of my upcoming book “Architecture in an Agile [...]

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Skip and Michael are joined by our colleague Dhaval Panchal, whose insights and point of view on whether coaching is a role or a profession make both of us wonder if we shouldn’t just step back and let Dhaval continue the podcast in our stead.

As a fan of Bruce Lee, one can appreciate this or be one-concerned-Agilista… I choose to laugh and appreciate the juxtaposition of harmony through deliberate support of team decisions and Bruce Lee’s “Way of the Intercepting Fist (Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do).”  For one, in the middle of a product definition team meeting, [...]