So my mother knows that I am a software architect that codes for a living -- oops! she just did not understand that last bit :-)
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Most agile people say big designs up front rarely pay off. You spend so much time doing design that you delay the opportunity of feedback from real, working software. But I sometimes do BIG DUF. It’s not that the design is big, it’s the problem that is big. So
I have no idea what I’ve gotten myself into now, but I’ve agreed to help out the Empirical Evaluation of Software Composition Techniques workshop will be held as part of the next Aspect Oriented Software Development conference. I doubt I will attend ESCOT or AOSD but it will be
I think that TDD is getting bastardized. If you happen to use a Unit testing framework, it does not mean that you are test driven at all. TDD is about test first to drive the rest – design, clean code, feedback, quality, and lot more. Using a testing framework
If you hate reading lengthy blog posts and dig the mind map view of the world, then add Steve van der Merwe’s blog to your feed gadget. What I really like is his short quick observations and great views about software development. But for me, it’s even better that
One of my contributions to 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know will be included in the book. My good friend and colleague, Niclas Nilsson, also has a contribution which will be in the book as well. But don’t just read mine, read all 97 and the amazing contributions that
I know it’s absolutely insane to try to reduce Eric Evans’ amazing book into just a few pages, but stupidity won. I think it’s still useful as a “next to the coffee mug on your desk thing” if you’re just starting off with DDD. So download the free Domain
I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and installed buildr which failed miserably. /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rjb-1.1.9/lib/rjbcore.bundle: dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rjb-1.1.9/lib/rjbcore.bundle, 9): no suitable image found. Did find: (LoadError) /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rjb-1.1.9/lib/rjbcore.bundle: no matching architecture in universal wrapper - /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rjb-1.1.9/lib/rjbcore.bundle It turns out that I needed to rebuild rjb, the ruby-java bridge, but that failed too. extconf.rb:48:
I am amazed, yet again, that people try to force others to comply to a process, standard, or whatever. The traditional justification is to ” have governance otherwise everything will fall apart”. Surely, we have learned enough from spectacular failures that governance that does not give people an opportunity to
Last week on the factor10 DDD course in Cape Town, the question of reusability came up again. It’s the same old object orientation promise of “Just do OO and you get phenomenal reuse for free”. Today, I was refactoring some code with another developer at a client and I
I shared by thoughts on people dynamics and how it affects success of software development projects with Yuanfang Cai yesterday. In particular, I was explaining my thoughts on how diversity in a team affects the performance of a team. When I talk about diversity I mean a lot more
aslamkhn New blog post: What's worse than BIG DUF? A BIG DIC! http://gatorurl.com/gxnk3z on Feb 4, 2010, 11:44 pm
aslamkhn New blog post: ESCOT 2010 http://gatorurl.com/ms6o7y on Jan 22, 2010, 3:36 pm
aslamkhn New blog post: Test First TDD http://gatorurl.com/kfyre9 on Jan 21, 2010, 11:12 am
aslamkhn New blog post: Mapping Steve's Mind and More http://gatorurl.com/59pja2 on Jan 21, 2010, 11:03 am
aslamkhn New blog post: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know http://gatorurl.com/k61xw1 on Jan 21, 2010, 10:56 am
aslamkhn New blog post: DDD Reference Card http://gatorurl.com/x6yqxy on Jan 21, 2010, 10:47 am
aslamkhn Owen grabs his hat-trick on Dec 8, 2009, 11:35 pm
aslamkhn Wolfsburg so unlucky. To put it into perspective, corner count is 10-1 for Wolfsburg. on Dec 8, 2009, 11:29 pm
aslamkhn Owen bags a 2nd. on Dec 8, 2009, 11:28 pm
aslamkhn @robertbravery Don't underestimate weather. It really does affect our outlook, mood and spirit more than we care to admit. on Dec 8, 2009, 11:16 pm