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Eric Evans Presentation at JAOO
I was clicking through infoq this morning, and came across a presentation by Eric Evans on DDD. Eric wrote the book Domain Driven Design. I have not yet had the pleasure to read this book, but I will...
View ArticleJava is not Statically Typed (right now)
What?!?1?!/!? That is right, I said it Java is not statically typed and by proxy is not safer than dynamic languages. Zealots HALT! We can fix this, and I intend to add some gas to the fire that people...
View ArticleThe tools we use
A few months ago I made an observation about the software development profession that I simply brushed off as unimportant. Now I still feel it is equally unimportant, but in the spirit of Obi...
View ArticleThe JVM is not Java
Is this another rant?….Yes. I apologize for all the rants lately, but hopefully there is some educational value woven throughout my posts, and besides I promised this one. Lets start with a history...
View ArticleAptana RadRails 1.0
I have recently become frustrated with the Eclipse IDE. I use 3.2 to do my java development, Flex Builder to do Flex development and Aptana RadRails for Ruby and Rails stuff. This last week I almost...
View ArticleJRuby, Ruby gem command conflict
I would have to assume that there are plenty of developers out there that want to install JRuby and Ruby on the same machine. There is a tragic flaw with this, the gem command is the same for both. If...
View ArticleWhat makes a great developer?
Passion. I have come to the conclusion that, that simple word is what separates an average developer from a great developer. IQ, education, degree, books, none of that matters, these are all symptoms...
View ArticleWhy Defensive Programming is Rubbish
There are many ways to classify a programming style. One of the classifications I hear a lot at my current place of employment is Defensive Programming. Before I worked here I had noticed the style but...
View ArticleConfluence Bundle for Textmate (sortof)
On and off I looked for a Textmate Bundle for Confluence with no luck. I was looking for something with basic syntax highlighting and maybe a preview view. It would be nice to have integration so I...
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Obsessed with REST
Early in my career I discovered my first love in programming, the build processes. I have identified it as various things over the years; build tools, unit testing, continuous integration and now...
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