Skills Matter Domain Driven Design Day
Eric Evans & Crew are back in town for a day of Domain Driven Design. The guys at Skills Matter have put together a great agenda for Friday, June 19th.
I’m very keen on going to see what cross over there is between domain modelling for general purpose software systems [...]
From Git to God in Six Months
Just over a year ago I watched the Introduction to Git video below on by Linus Torvalds and just had to switch it off after 10 minutes of play. I thought Linus was git and as a result didn’t touch Git for six months. Then in May 2008, I was starting a new [...]
The Planning Game
Successful projects are continually planning. Big plans (release), small plans(iterations). The best plans are clear, simple and easy to change. Most importantly, plans are the result of a collaborative team effort.
Successful teams value planning over plans. However, things are really broken when the reverse is true. We’ve all been [...]
Ruby is the R in Rails
I would love to have attended RailsConf 2008 but alas you can only do so much in a day. Although this was a Rails conference, it seems that this year there was less talk about Rails and more about Ruby. This is hardly surprising really given that Rails is just a web framework. [...]
Busy Java Developer: Stop, Look, Listen and Live
Back in the seventies, the “Stop, Look, Listen and Live” UK campaign was used to teach kids road safety. Funnily enough, the Green Cross Code Man, who became the face of this road awareness campaign, went on to become Darth Vader!
It is now time for Java Developers to Stop, Look, Listen and Live! [...]
The Beauty of Ruby
I’m more of a fan of Ruby than Rails. Sure Rails is good, but Ruby is way better. I’m trying to put some time aside to learn a little bit of Polish. As a result, I was a frequent visitor to www.dict.pl. After a couple of days of using this, I’d [...]
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. [...]
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