Last November 14-22, Ideyatech held a technical training class entitled “CMIS/SC2MS Platform Technologies”, the second of a three-part training program specifically designed to provide technical knowledge on operation and maintenance of case management systems developed by Ideyatech, Inc.

Cohesive, readable and expressive, easy to debug, refactor, enhance and easy to unit test. These are the qualities of good software code. However, there are factors which hinders most of us from achieving these. When a software is handed over to a number of developers over the years, code degradation happens.

October 10, 2011 — This marks the day that Ideyatech has moved to a new office. For three years, Belvedere Tower in Ortigas has been home for the company. At the time, it was an adequate ground in housing our competitive operation till it can sustain our growing needs no more.

Generic types added in JDK 5.0 provided enhancement to type safety in Java. For example in using Collections, generic types allow restricting the type the collection would contain as opposed to pre-JDK5 wherein collection classes accept anything that extends from java.lang.Object (which means almost everything!).

There are two types in Java Programming Language. The first is primitive type such as int, double, and boolean. The second is the reference type such as String, List, and Set. Every primitive type has a corresponding reference type, called a boxed primitive.

I recently came across this Java code snippet we created for Open-Tides and still find it very useful in developing flexible and dynamic applications.

So, why is there a need to retrieve values using reflection? The answer is simple – to allow your application rules to be configurable through the database.

I’ve been an Agile and Scrum twitter contributor for the past three months and I have read countless blogs and articles about Scrum and Agile Development. There’s this one Agile article that I want to share with you. This article is called Ten Principles of Agile Tester, but I’ll just pick my Top 7 from the list.

Today marks another milestone for Ideyatech as the company officially announces Ideyatech Labs. It is the company’s product development and R&D arm aimed towards developing innovative software solutions to real-world problems. This momentous event shows that the company is serious in moving towards developing creative software apps.