QCon 2008 : Wednesday
The first day of the conference. Great feeling. After buying a couple of books for the folks back at Cognifide, I quickly settled down for the opening keynote by Eric Gamma on How Eclipse changed my view on Software Development.
I was a little bit disappointed by the talk, most probably because I was [...]
QCon 2008 : Summary
QCon London 2008 ended just over a week ago. It’s taken me over a week to get back into the swing of things at work. Over the next few days I’ll let you know my thoughts but let’s start with the conference as a whole.
Firstly, the venue. Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre [...]
Machine Washable IPod Nano
Last Sunday I put my IPod Nano in the washing machine and sent it round on a 40 degrees colours cycle. The result of my stupidity, caused by automatically taking off my top after a run and stuffing it in the washing machine, is clear for all to see opposite. This is easy [...]
What’s on your Stack?
Yesterday I attended a talk on DSLs and towards the end of it we started looking at external DSLs. I’m going to skip over that topic for now, but as a result tutorial headed by Rebecca Parsons moved into the area of lexers, grammars, parsers, language design and a little bit of compiler theory. [...]
QCon 2008 : Domain Specific Languages
Today I spent my first day at QCon 2008 in a room with Martin Fowler, Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons presenting their position on Domain Specific Languages, the results I’m sure will end up in a book.
For me, having sat through the tutorial, the headline moments for me were:
Understanding what the differences are between an [...]
When do you code review?
I stumbled across this article in my google reader on code reviews that I found quite interesting. All too often code reviews just don’t happen software projects. Whether they are forgotten about, or there is no company procedure for doing them, or no time is set aside to perform them, if no-one makes [...]
How do you recruit a tester?
We are currently recruiting for a tester at the moment and as ever, this is proving to be a very difficult role to fill. This is partly due to this mentality from development snobs that ‘Testers are Idiots‘. I’ve only every recruited a couple of good testers and quite a few bad ones. [...]
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