Jera Design

Jera Design is John Brewer's consulting practice, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

"Jera" is the name of the rune for the letter "J", the first letter in John's first name. The Jera design logo in the upper left corner of this page is loosely based on the "Jera" rune.

What's New

John Brewer's homepage is now a bliki.

Developer Resources

• Technical Information
  • Extreme Programming FAQ
  • Why a Duck? An introduction to polymorphism and patterns.
  • Jera Tech Notes
    • JTN001 Some Useful Free Software for Java Developers.
    • JTN002 MinUnit -- A Minimal Unit Testing Framework.
    • JTN003 Recommended Reading: Software Development
    • JTN004 - Bay Area Technical Meetings
• Tools
  • Ant Tasks some utility tasks for the Apache Ant build tool.
  • fakesmtpd a fake SMTP daemon for debugging applications the send email.