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Cory Maksymchuk is a software developer at Protegra and has been a regular speaker at SDEC. He has spent most of the last 10 years consulting and dedicated his last 6 to working exclusively the Java stack as part of large software development initiatives. His true passion in life is finding elegant solutions to difficult problems and truly gets excited seeing great ideas come to life. Were he not to be a software developer, he would most certainly be an inventor. Outside of work, Cory spends some of his free time working on home renos, being a Dad and learning 2 new pet technologies: Scala and Android.

rivercitycode has written 3 posts for Protegra

Lean: Eliminate Waste from your QA process with Smoke Testing

Posted by rivercitycode ⋅ October 25, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

Smoke testing is a term that originated in plumbing and refers to physically checking a series of closed pipes for leaks. It doesn’t refer to extremely detailed testing of the pipes, but simply an initial preliminary test to ensure that nothing in the system will fail catastrophically. The same ‘smoke-tests’ are used in manufacturing and … Continue reading »

It works! It really works!

Posted by rivercitycode ⋅ March 9, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

As a developer with 10+ years’ experience, it’s likely surprising to many of you that I have never been on a project that truly used TDD. Don’t get me wrong. I have been on projects where some of us wrote some unit tests occasionally. I have also been on projects where we wrote integration tests, … Continue reading »

Java is Dead? Not by a long shot…

Posted by rivercitycode ⋅ August 12, 2011 ⋅ 1 Comment

As a developer, I often hear of Java referred to as ‘The Next Cobol’. If I had a nickel for every time I read an article entitled ‘Java is Dead’, I’d be retired. In fact, searching for articles that contain the exact words “Java is Dead” returns 63,100 results. All this noise could make a … Continue reading »