vhandit | Java and Agile

Using daily meetings for frequent course corrections. However, you should keep the meeting short because time is burn rate.
Though good collaboration doesn't guarantee a project's success, poor collaboration almost always guarantees a project's failureWhat benefits does the daily meeting bring to you?

- Keeps inexperienced developers and experienced ones on-track.
- Avoids reinventing the wheel.
- Limits tumbleweed developers' damage.
- Leverages the entire team’s experience to solve problems quickly.
- Improves team communication.
- Helps every people have a big-picture point of view.
Who are tumbleweed developers? We’ve all worked with a few tumbleweed developers. These developers lose direction and drift through their days. They wade through the random code and “improve” it, cleaning up method signatures, polishing algorithms, and reformatting brackets. Tumbleweed developers lack the discipline to finish any task you ask them to do and generally cause more harm tha…

Customer Needs My team already had a go-live app in a customer environment some months ago. We have been developing some new features for our next milestone. The situation is described in the picture below:

We used Git for our codebase management. The go-live app running on our customer environment was at version `v1`. The latest sprint release was at version `v7` for our developing app.

Our customers wanted to have two separated release packages for our current sprint release. We all know that it was easy to ship the package to the developing app. However, the issue was that how we just picked some features needed for the go-live app. We called this package was a hotfix.
Git Cherry-Picking Fortunately, we found that Git provided a way to achieve this task. Actually, we had all commits on the branch `master` already. We created a new branch called `hotfix/v1.1` and we traced back which commits needed. We used cherry-picking for merging these commits to this branch.

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Motivation"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered a major innovation that could disrupt many things. Some people even compare it to the Internet. A large investor firm predicted that some AI startups could become the next Apple, Google or Amazon within five years"
- Prof. John Vu, Carnegie Mellon University.

Using chatbots to support our daily tasks is super useful and interesting. In fact, "Jenkins CI, Jira Cloud, and Bitbucket" have been becoming must-have apps in Slack of my team these days.

There are some existing approaches for chatbots including pattern matching, algorithms, and neutral networks. RiveScript is a scripting language using "pattern matching" as a simple and powerful approach for building up a Chabot.
Architecture Actually, it was flexible to choose a programming language for the used Rivescript interpreter like Java, Go, Javascript, Python, and Perl. I went with Java.


Used Technologies and ToolsOracle JDK 1.8.0_151Apache Maven 3.5…

You can find the demonstrated code of this post on my Github repo here.
The user story" As a banker, I want to enter a client's birthday like 01.01.80 or 01.01.1980,
So that the birthday can be displayed as 01.01.1980 "
Implementation Firstly, I thought about how to use a built-in converter likes the following.

<h:inputText id="birthdate" value="#{data.birthdate}" type="date" > <f:convertDateTime/> <f:ajax event="change" listener="#{data.onCalculate}" execute="@this" render="@this" /> </h:inputText>
However, without defining a pattern, JSF used its default one which was not my desire. It threw an exception when I tried to enter a date like "01.01.90".

> myform:birthdate: '01.01.90' could not be understood as a date. Example: Mar 4, 2018 

Actually, I even could not define either pattern "dd.MM.yyyy" or "dd.MM.yy" for "…

This is a book telling about many stories of the book's author, Ta Minh Tuan. Each his story is not only a valuable lesson but also a heart-to-heart talk. Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast I accidentally attended a $2 meetup which was held by Hoithao.vn in 2013. It was the first time for me to see the author. At that time, he wanted the attendees to repeat many times a sentence "Think big, start small, move fast" (a mindset for entrepreneurs). It was really impressed to me. I've been following him on Facebook since 2013. This book was his recommendation. Do It Anyway Your success is defined by yourself. It is built by your habits. Habits are the things need time to tackle. To me, that somehow means JUST following your heart combining with your brain because you're the one who knows what you're doing. Believe in yourself and never betray your dream!
We Are One The author said that "everything is connected". This is also the theory of Buddha. He beli…

In the previous post, I've already shared with you how my team consults clients by using a HTML prototype. This post is about the used technologies for reusing the provided HTML template and communicating with backend.
What is the issue when using HTML elements with Primefaces components? Primefaces is a great extension for developing JSF web apps. However, it is really frustrating in case we have to make it work with an existing HTML template. Why?
- Primefaces has its own theme for styling.
- Primefaces changes the HTML structure.
Therefore, that would be a huge effort to use the Primefaces' components to replicate the elements of the HTML template; especially it is impossible for images drawing by "canvas" tag.

That requires us to find a better approach. Since Java EE 7 (introducing JSF 2.2 included), it supports to use HTML5 elements. The idea is that JSF components don't effect the style and HTML structure, so we can easily reuse the provided HTML template.…