This month our posts are focusing on code quality and we have already covered how you can use IDEs to improve your code to higher standard. Building on that this post will be about how you can maintain your current code quality level, and the easiest way to do that is to properly test it…
Apache NetBeans Day UK 2018 is fast approaching and we hope to see as many of you attend as possible. It is going to be a great day where there will be many experienced speakers willing to share their knowledge with you on a variety of different topics. Like last year, we have 2 tracks –…
In my previous article, I worked on code quality in NetBeans IDE. In this article, I am using IntelliJ IDEA to improve my Java code. IDEA has plugins to support PMD and FindBugs and SonarCube but it also comes with its own static analysis capabilities. The Analyse menu gives you the option to Inspect code…
One of our New Year’s resolutions for 2018 at IDRsolutions was to give the code base a thorough review and tidy. It has been written over the last 15 years and there are lots of areas which can be improved in 2018 (using newer Java constructs, rewriting with hindsight, repaying technical debt, removing used code,…
Recently IDRsolutions have undergone a branding transformation for the first time since 1999. Late 2017 we had internally decided as a team that we wanted to re-visit our company branding. This also included a rebrand of all of our products which you can read about here. When this rebrand started we hadn’t initially decided to rebrand our…
