Java Constants – Not In The Interface

I was working on some code refactoring on a massive codebase when I was faced with the issue of where to put constants for the default values of business rules.  This issue has been a constant subject of design discussion in java since I can remember, and definitely over a decade for myself.  Doing “object” […]

It’s in npm somewhere . . . it must be.

I’m sure many developers have been finding nodejs buried in pretty much everything these days, and that can mean dependency management with npm and package.json.  And more often than not I am finding version collisions and dependency needs unmet in non-trivial and time draining situations. Working on a large commerce engine, it fell to my […]

Large Grails Log File

I was looking at reorganizing my directories for several grails and java projects I am on, and had local branches from our git hub I didn’t want to lose so re-cloning wasn’t an option. Much to my surprise, when I got info on the entire repo directory it was almost 28 gigabytes. My first check […]