Author Profile by The Pragmatic Programmers

Kenneth Kousen

Keep Up with Articles, Books, and More by Kenneth Kousen

Biography

Ken Kousen is the author of the Help Your Boss Help You, Kotlin Cookbook, Modern Java Recipes, Gradle Recipes for Android, and Making Java Groovy, as well as video courses in Android, Groovy, Gradle, Advanced Java, and Spring.

A JavaOne Rock Star, he is also a regular speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff conference tour and has spoken at conferences all over the world. He has taught software development training courses to thousands of students.

His academic background includes BS degrees in both mechanical engineering and mathematics from MIT, an MA and PhD in aerospace engineering from Princeton, and an MS in computer science from RPI. He is currently president of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.

Connect with Ken Kousen via the following sites and resources.

• Website
• Blog
• Newsletter: Tales from the jar side
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• DevTalk
• Events

Articles

Following are the articles that Ken Kousen has published with The Pragmatic Programmers on Medium:

Hacks: Your Boss Is Not Your Friend

Answering the Unanswerable

Why Your Manager Is So Bad

Struggling at The Game of School

Pushing Back: Lessons from the Prisoner’s Dilemma

When Your Boss Is a Micromanager

Bypassing the Chain of Command

The Two Messages To Give Your Manager

Older Employees and Younger Managers

Never Postpone a Meeting

How to Deal with Failure

Mockito Made Clear

Unboxing Day, Part I

Unboxing Day, Part II

Unboxing Day, Part III

Why Use Mockito At All?

How Mocks Help

I Spy with My Little Mockito…

Mockito: Where Everything Is Made Up and the Versions Don’t Matter

A Simple, Modern, Mockito Project

Mockito Versus BDDMockito

Mocking Final Classes and Methods

The Argument Is the (Mockito) Answer

Don’t Verify That Mock — Yet!

Gotta Mock ’Em All!

Taming a Silly Generic Warning

Books

Books by Ken Kousen available from The Pragmatic Programmers:

Mockito Made Clear

Help Your Boss Help You

Books from other publishers:

Kotlin Cookbook: A Problem-Focused Approach

Modern Java Recipes: Simple Solutions to Difficult Problems in Java 8 and 9

Gradle Recipes for Android: Master the New Build System for Android

Making Java Groovy

Books on Medium

You can read the following books by Ken Kousen on Medium:

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