Hey, I’m Carlos!

I create, maintain, and operate software. Sometimes I write about it here.

15 Dec 2014

Lint your shell scripts

I will start this by quoting the bashstyle’s readme: Bash is like the JavaScript of …

14 Dec 2014

Every once in a while I see somewhere a wrong import to the old, deprecated junit.framework …

18 Nov 2014

Have you ever wrote JUnit tests extending a class that does some before and after work, so you …

26 Oct 2014

Exponential backoff is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively decrease the rate of …

10 Oct 2014

Updated with second round script in Oct 26, 2014. Well, last sunday (Oct 5) was the brazilian …

18 Aug 2014

For some reason, Oracle blocked the installers to run only on a fixed OSX version range with a …

4 Aug 2014

Earlier this year, the new version of the Java Programming Language was released. Finally, it …

28 Apr 2014

I found that it’s pretty hard to have a project with high test coverage and fast …

18 Mar 2014

At the company I work Pull Requests are part of our culture. When someone opens a Pull Request, …