Agile software development is about team code ownership, collaboration, and sharing ideas to get stuff done.  You want to ride the Agile wave, but half your team is in one city and the rest are in another.  How can you get your guys and gals to collaborate over the wire?  Recently I’ve been working on a project like this and I’ve found a few things that can make your team efficient, collaborative, and successful in an Agile environment.

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The Holidays are here! Soon snow will be falling, presents will be wrapped, and kids will be in line for Santa at the mall. I thought to myself, in this stressful/wonderful time of the year I would write a little light reading for the blog! I know that sometimes technical blogging can be a little on the strenuous side, so sit back, relax, and hum the tune with me! I know that you know it!

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Here are four things in Java that might surprise you:

Polymorphism doesn’t work the way you might expect. For example, consider subtype polymorphism with Generics. To elaborate, even though B is a subtype of A, and it is perfectly valid to say:

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