Life on Tour: JAX 2009 Conference Review
Posted by Andrew Phillips in the wee hours: April 30th, 2009
Great Indian Developer Summit - 2009
Posted by Nancy Sharma around lunchtime: April 27th, 2009
After the GIDS 2008 last year, me and one of my colleague at Xebia expressed our interest in attending Developer Summit this year. Great Indian Developer Summit(GIDS) took place from 23-25 April 2009 at Bangalore , India.
Our journey started with witnessing a huge chaos at the airport. Their systems had gone down so everything was haywire. We joked of representing Xebia here as well to present them a better software solution 
@Bangalore , India
The first day saw a huge number of people. A lot of buzz and enthusiasm among the delegates. Big sponsors like Microsoft, Adobe , Red hat , JBoss , IBM , Yahoo , Sony Ericsson were associated with this event. Everyday there were five parallel tracks going on at five different halls.
In this blog I would briefly cover the highlights. (more...)
Do you worry about crappy code? Then face reality and grow up.
Posted by Serge Beaumont around lunchtime: April 24th, 2009
My colleague Age pointed me at a blog post by Uncle Bob about a presentation where a Mr. Josuttis presented the inevitability of crappy code because "businesses will do whatever it takes to cut costs and increase revenue, and therefore businesses will drive software quality inexorably downward". Uncle Bob proceeds to go against that argument, but I find it to be a technocratic (DSLs and produce better code) and ultimately unsatisfying answer. My answer to the problem?
Face reality, grow up.
Clouds… Everything-As-A-Service
Posted by Guido Schoonheim around lunchtime: March 13th, 2009
Yesterday was a very good day! After speaking at QCon the day ended with CloudCamp. An evening dedicated to everything cloud with an amazing turnout! More then 500 folks joined.
Turns out that although in general people tend to agree what a cloud is, nobody actually knows exactly what to do with it! (more...)
Recipe for slightly burned decisions
Posted by Barre Dijkstra in the early afternoon: January 28th, 2009
This recipe describes the process of baking marvellous, slightly burned decisions. If you’re looking for the well-done version of decisions, I would suggest altering this recipe by adding things like “necessity”, “timing”, “context” and “feeling” or taking another recipe on the subject.
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Podcast 22 - Choosing a technology stack
Posted by Robert van Loghem in the early evening: January 27th, 2009
Narinder Kumar, Vivek Kumar Yadav and Vincent Partington talk about choosing a technology stack for building an automated deployment product, currently named Deploy it.
- What is a technology stack.
- Why do you need it.
- What did they choose and why.
- How Agile/SCRUM helped the team to make better choices.
- Lessons learned.
- What not to do when choosing a technology.
Hosted by Robert van Loghem.
So head on over to the show page or subscribe to our podcast!
QCon San Francisco 2008 - Impressions
Posted by Age Mooy just before lunchtime: November 25th, 2008
Last year I came back from QCon San Francisco filled with new ideas. DSLs were clearly going to rule the world so I'd better start using them any chance I got. No surprise then that I was back for more this year, hoping to find out about the hottest new bleeding edge trends. Unfortunately the first two days were slightly disappointing. I did visit some interesting cloud computing introduction talks and Kent Beck's talks were pretty funny, but nothing really blew me away.
Luckily the last day was more like it. Here are some impressions of what's hot and what's not:
- Relational databases are very uncool (or "unkuu" as Kent Beck's son would apparently put it)
- Alternative storage solutions like CouchDb, AtomServer, and Neo4J are very hot.
- Google's BigTable and MapReduce are very influential and lots of innovative new projects are based on them.
- Everything should have a RESTful API.
There were a lot of interesting sessions on friday but the best two were definitely:
- Unshackle your Domain, a DDD session that talked about some very interesting domain modeling techniques. See Erik's blog for more info on that session.
- AtomServer - The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution. These guys not only discussed a very interesting RESTful data storage solution, they were also very entertaining and their new dating site http://www.AnyoneWillDo.com/ will undoubtedly be very successful.
All in all it was very much worth it coming to San Francisco this year and hopefully I'll be back for more inspiration next year.
Flex Testing Toolkit
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal in the late evening: November 19th, 2008
My recent assignment at Albumprinter gave an opportunity to play with flex testing tools available out there. Coming back to serious flex development after more than a year was a pleasant surprise. The state of flex when I last did something on it was for sure not “mature”. There weren’t many frameworks around.
But things have changed a great deal since then. Not only do we have frameworks implementing MVC (Cairngorm) but also some standard extensions (UM extensions) to those frameworks, we also have spring like IOC frameworks (Prana) for Flex.
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My book review appeared on TheServerSide.com
Posted by Balaji D Loganathan in the early evening: November 9th, 2008
What exactly is software quality?
Posted by Erwin van der Koogh in the wee hours: November 5th, 2008
That is what I would like to find out today. If you ask a group of developers what it is, the only thing they will agree on is that it is important. Managers will tell you they want high-quality software, but only because it is politically correct to do so. They are more than willing, and usually even eager, to trade in this mysterious quality for more functionality or performance when it is needed.
And who can blame them? What is the business case for something you can not even explain?
We know beautiful code when we see it, but how do we write beautiful software? And the even better question, why would we care?
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