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Let’s Test 2012

Let’s Test is the first context-driven school of software testing conference in Europe. It was held 7-9 May in Åkersberga. Over 150 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, ...

11 Mai 12

The next big thing is a low end device

or “ProjectGlass? iGlasses? Rings? and how that isn’t the next big thing.” Internet, the biggest game changer since the printing press. It’s about communication and it is abou...

16 Apr 12

Gör bra skit – tankar om webbdagarna 2012

I torsdags och fredags intogs Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center av cirka 1200 glada, passionerade och kunniga människor inom IT, webb, e-handel och många andra områden för Webbdagarna. Internetwor...

24 Mär 12

Be quick or be dead – High Frequency Trading, Part 2

In the first part of the series, we introduced you to High Frequency Trading, some common algorithms and some legislative status in the area. We will now delve deeper in to exploiting the markets wit...

23 Mär 12

Cloudshoring

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, this was the place you heard it the first* A group of us from HiQ was recently on a conference and discussed everything from future trends to the legacy and potential for lo...

01 Mär 12

Niclas’ notes from JFokus 2012

I again this year had the opportunity to attend JFokus and as usual I was not disappointed, it had many interesting talks, more than I had the opportunity to listen to. These are my notes and impress...

22 Feb 12

JFokus 2012, day 2

Summary of JFocus I really like JFokus. Each year I’m meeting a lot of friends and colleagues. I have 50 new buzzwords in my head and a lot of techniques to try. You get’s a picture of the state of j...

16 Feb 12

JFocus 2012, day 1

JFokus is a conference for java, languages and tools around it. It is for the second year situated in the new Stockholm waterfront conference center. That fact, along with the number of participants ...

15 Feb 12

Why you need to step it up and make things better

If you have expertise in any software development area and have seen your share of problematic software efforts out there in the wild, this article is for you. Guess what – You are the one who need t...

04 Feb 12

Work-Life balance

Dear reader, I’m not going to pretend that I know the secret formula or that I somehow manage to squeeze in 30 hours per day, but what I do know is that becoming a father has made me realize th...

24 Jan 12

Process, Experience, Heart

There is a common misconception that as long as you have a good process, anyone can be a project manager and any project will succeed. That’s why everyone pours money into implementing these processe...

12 Jan 12

Beyond greed and fear – High frequency trading, part 1

Algorithmic or robotic trading has been around for a while now. It’s actually been around for decades. How come the debate is just getting started? Well, there are probably two main reasons. The firs...

12 Dez 11

Designworkshop – Nöjdare SL-resenärer

Att ta en paus från sina vanliga åtaganden och fundera på något helt annat är bra för kreativiteten. I går körde HiQ:s användbarhetsgrupp höstens andra designworkshop där vi tog fram designkoncept ut...

02 Dez 11

Creating APIs that others will use

In your work as a developer, have you ever created your own helper code to cover lack of functionality in an API? Have you ever found yourself creating the same design solution over and over again to...

14 Nov 11

Being Creative

I have a chip on my shoulder, wearing down my neck and back. It might remind you of a heavy log or a burden hard to get rid of, a monkey on my back if you will. On the contrary, if I did not have thi...

11 Nov 11

Designworkshop – en bättre fotbollsupplevels e

Förra veckan körde HiQ:s användbarhetsgrupp en workshop där vi arbetade fram ett antal koncept utifrån ett fiktivt case. Det handlade om fotboll, ett ämne som ligger mig varmt om hjärtat :). Målet va...

09 Nov 11

A team of archaeologists discovered a fossil, assumed to be from a very rare and long extinct speci...

Perhaps not the headline in tomorrow’s edition of “Computer Sweden” but life as a C++ programmer can make you feel like an endangered species. Many new programming languages are becoming more and mor...

08 Nov 11

Are you equal to the task of implementing equals()?

Do you think writing an equals() method in Java is easy? If so, it’s my sad duty to tell you that you’re wrong. Even an excellent technical writer like Joshua Bloch needed more than eleve...

01 Nov 11

Hövding – cykelhjälmen med stil och teknik

I somras fick jag äran och nöjet att jobba med världens coolaste uppdrag. Det var Hövding i Malmö, utvecklare av den osynliga cykelhjälmen (en airbag-krage för cyklister) som tog hjälp från HiQ för a...

07 Okt 11

Let me introduce the Feature owner

The roles in Scrum is simple. The Product owner, the Scrum master and the team’s responsibilities and boundaries is in the methodology well described. How could this well defined and light weighted w...

06 Okt 11

Logging in Java … revisited

You’d think that such a simple matter as logging would be sufficiently handled by the de facto standard logging facilities used by Java developers these days, right? Wrong! I’m not going ...

06 Okt 11

Being the Zoolution

Being a consultant is a profession within a profession. There are several aspects that a consultant are required to master, other than the work that is being performed. This is my humble attempt at s...

04 Okt 11

Sustainable test-driven development at DevCon11

I just got back from the developer conference DevCon11 – a nice and well-organized little conference in the pretty town of Karlskrona. I had been invited as a speaker, and my presentation was about &...

17 Sep 11

Debugging Battlefield 3

I just love my job! Right now, I have the privilege of helping DICE complete what could be the most intense and real game experience ever achieved – Battlefield 3! Apart from working with very talent...

14 Sep 11

Fixing Android’s DatePickerDialog

When working with the standard DatePickerDialog component in Android, with the Finnish locale, only the end of the month name is shown, like this: The standard Android date picker does not show the e...

09 Sep 11

Private access in Java

From time to time, when customizing existing Java code, I’ve come upon the following problem: I need to make a small change to an existing component in a 3rd-party library, but the component has not ...

08 Sep 11

Garbage Collection in Android applications – how to not get confused

For Android Java applications, the garbage collection model is used for memory management. The idea of garbage collection is very convenient: the system automatically keeps track of which objects a...

07 Sep 11

Profiles in Spring IoC

In Spring 3.1 we will finally get support for profiles in Spring IoC, both in XML and Annotated configurations. This will help a great deal, since most projects already has 3 archetype profiles integ...

07 Sep 11

Lean UX is amazing

User experience (UX) design is about learning what users need and want, in order to create a great service or product. It’s about designing not by assumption, but by empirical knowledge. We UX ...

07 Sep 11

(You gotta) fight for your right (to UX)

WARNING: The advice below is based on true events. Names have been left out to protect the guilty and the innocent. Interviews, focus groups, questionnaires and observations. All popular buzzwords an...

31 Aug 11

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