Come and hear me and @bdemers rant about testing next week!

#DeveloperProductivity #Testing #AutomatedTests

https://gradle.com/events/testing-software-is-awful-05-25/

@mkheck I'm sorry to hear that

Just got caught up in the latest round of terminations from Microsoft.

If anyone needs a "batteries included" advocate who really knows code, AI, and real production concerns + solutions, ping me! Ready to make great things happen for you.

Onward and upward!

Gradle ❤️ sbt!
Our productivity and observability tool Develocity supports sbt builds, so you can use the build cache to accelerate your build, and use test analytics to find your flaky tests

https://youtu.be/_SwcrzHjx_s?feature=shared

@mkalmes @robeden thanks! I agree too, pair programming is by far the best approach

@tastapod 😂

6 years old and this video from @trisha_gee on the value and point of code reviews is still one of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9_0UUUNt-Y

@robeden this is one of my favourite talks!

Gradle Inc is not just about the build tool and Java. We're also active in the wider JVM community. Now, we've joined the Scala Center Advisory Board, so we can be part of conversations about developer productivity for Scala developers!

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/22/3065619/0/en/Gradle-Inc-Joins-Scala-Center-Advisory-Board-to-Improve-Scala-Developer-Experience.html

Here's a podcast where I rant about flaky tests again. I also chat a bit about developer productivity in general

https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/developer-productivity-testing-best-practices/

@trisha_gee I get Claude to maintain a full context summary comment at the start of every file that it writes or modifies. Makes Claude work better and it’s easier for me to see what it’s trying to write as well. I don’t have to remind it to update it. E.g. https://github.com/adrianco/meGPT/blob/main/build.py

@adrianco that's brilliant actually. Also, makes me wonder why we didn't normalise writing such structured comments for humans in the first place!

@GeePawHill yes, exactly!

I'm going to be signing some of my books at #devoxxuk. If you have a copy, and you want me to sign it, come and find me! (Or buy a copy and I'll sign it :) )

https://www.devoxx.co.uk/speaker/?id=21288

@vlothonian I love "given when then", I think it really forces you to focus on expected behaviour

Like code comments or hate them? What are your thoughts?

#softwaredevelopment #coding

https://youtu.be/D-n0sjccMmY?feature=shared

@sergi We spoke to the developer advocates who work with the other IDEs, and they said a lot of it is transferable to the other IDEs. The examples are in Java but a lot of the features exist in the other IDEs. @HelenJoScott might have a clearer view

I am super excited to be one of the Opening Keynotes at #DevoxxUK! It's a new talk called "Beyond Inspiration: Turning Learning into Action". See you there!

https://www.devoxx.co.uk/talks-by-sessions/?id=2701

It's been a while since I said "Buy my book" so... "Buy my book". Please 😆

I know you can all write code with AI now. But did you know that you can use a whole bunch of other (non-AI) features in your IDE to make it easier to build, test, debug and commit your code?

#IntelliJ #DeveloperProductivity

https://trishagee.com/getting-to-know-intellij-idea/#buy

At QCon London in April, @holly_cummins and I will be doing our "Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun" talk on the Developer Productivity track. See you there?

https://qconlondon.com/presentation/apr2025/productivity-messing-around-and-having-fun