Kevin Potgieter

Coming from his previous role as a Senior C# .NET Developer at Kynetix, leading a team which delivered top notch back-end financial systems, Kevin brings with him valuable experience in agile methodologies backed by solid technical experience. Kevin has been immersed in .NET development using C# since 2003, and has only recently jumped into the Java camp in the hope that doing so would challenge his thought processes, and to get a much needed appreciation for what can be accomplished on this platform. Kevin currently holds accreditations for .NET 2.0 & 3.5 development in Windows Forms and ASP.NET, as well as Microsoft SQL Server development. He has also recently achieved a SCJP certification, upon which he hopes to build, and one day achieve the goal of a SCEA certification.

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  • Spring Conference – Some Notes

    I recently attended the SpringSource S2G Forum Series at the London Hilton. There were some good sessions being presented, and sometimes I wish I could clone myself, as more often than not, there's always more than one really good session running in the...

  • Maven android plugin and the –core-library build option

    I've recently been working on building some android based applications now for the past 3 or so months, and its been a fantastic journey so far. However, there have been times where I've found I talk to myself quite a bit, and for most part, I find myself...

  • Data Matching Engine

    It's becoming increasingly harder to find the data we're looking for. Sometimes, even Google or Bing searches can fall slightly short, and we'll find ourselves having to filter through many result sets to eventually find what it was we were actually looking...

  • Beginning Scrum with Self Organisation

    So the moment has come. The one everyone has been waiting for... the one blog post that will solve ALL your problems, and can magically summarise in bullet point form what it is you need to do in order to "just get Scrum to work" in your team. Well if...

  • Some Agile Scrum Notes

    So I've just recently returned back to work after attending a rather intense two day Scrum Master course, only to find I now have a head that feels like its about to explode - but in a good kind of way - if thats possible? Now, as you may have already...

  • Javadocs – Add Some UML Spice

    Originally, this post was going to be my first one, as I was actually tackling Javadocs and UML generation together for the first time. However, after eventually completing the Javadocs and UML generation, there was way too much I had to share, hence...

  • Javadocs – Custom Taglets & Stylesheets

    There comes a point in every developers life when you're asked: "So, Mr. Smart Developer, what documentation can you provide for the application you've just written?" which is more often than not, superseded by a minimum of 5 seconds of silence, which...

  • Traversing the realms – Moving from .NET to Java

    As some of you might notice, this is my first post here at G3, and after much deliberation about which topic I should address, I decided perhaps I should give my account of what I think moving from the world of .NET and C# to Java was like for me. When...