Gradle, Groovy and other...

That probably will be a shortest post in this blog. Shortest coz I do not think that this subject deserve more. I should admit, more and more noise I can hear around this. I would say an any thread about a build system eventually diluted by Gradle. And you know what I think about this?

Growth rings

Dedicated to Bart :)

First time I saw growth rings of the tree I have been told that they reflects its age. Each year the new ring is appearing so, you can easily calculate how long this tree stands there. As simple as that, life of an any software product could be traced by its version numbers. Just unlike the tree, the software has multiple branches of "growth" (or evolution): functional, maturity and so on. Actually every company has its own versioning approach, different identification of stages. But versioning is always incremental and usually do not require more then 3 numbers.

Do you believe in God?

In advance, this paper is neither about God nor about his existence. I prefer to stay away from divine-related discussion, as belief in God is a personal issue.

However, I'm sure that whatever people can’t explain they put outside of human competency and ascribe it mystical attributes or halo of divinity. A good sample of this is lighting. Before Benjamin Franklin proved its electrical nature, it was thought to be a sign of God’s wrath. People often prefer myths, especially if those myths can compensate for their own lack of knowledge.