HttpServletRequest Path Decoding

The documentation on HttpServletRequest is very poor, and this fills in a critical set of facts that you need to know to write a TomCat application.

Counting Source Lines

I rarely count the number of lines of source — but here is a quick script to do it.

Incremental Development

I happened across this excellent and perfect depiction of incremental development.  The image addresses on of the key flaws in thinking that lead some agile projects to fail.  So let’s discuss a bit.