Earlier today I found myself scavenging the PLOP site hoping to find some of the final drafts of the papers presented at PLOP 07 this year… no luck, but I did come across last years and, coincidentially, Martin, Noble & Biddle’s paper “Programmers are from Mars, Customers are from Venus: A practical guide for customers [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Fear
October 16th, 2007
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Fear is quite obviously the worst emotion that any developer (agile or not) can succumb to… the fear to try new technologies, the fear to try something out, the fear to speak up, etcetera etcetera. The list goes on. In my honest opinion, fear is the one driving force that can break a development team [...]
Five Most Common Misuses of FIT
October 15th, 2007
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Jim Shore has written an excellent blog post (in rant mode) enumerating what he sees as the Five Ways to Misuse Fit. And I couldn’t agree with him more.
Agile in Action
October 14th, 2007
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Ever wanted to know what an agile software development environment looks like? Curious how teams are usually laid out, or just frankly interested in agile themed photos? I’ve formed an “Agile Software Development” group on flickr… feel free to check it out and even submit any photos of your own. On a side note, Friday [...]
A Snippet is Worth a Thousand Words
October 6th, 2007
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There’s something to be said about simplicity… import org.springframework.orm.ibatis.support.SqlMapClientDaoSupport; import roadrantz.model.Motorist; public class IBatisRantDao extends SqlMapClientDaoSupport implements RantDao { public Motorist getMotoristById(long id) { return (Motorist) getSqlMapClientTemplate(). queryForObject(“getMotoristById”, id); } public void saveMotorist(Motorist motorist) { getSqlMapClientTemplate().insert(“saveMotorist”, motorist); } }
Just A Quick Note on Frameworks
October 3rd, 2007
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Since I’ve been pushing Spring quite a bit lately (what can I say… I like it!), a lot of people have continuously asked me, “why?” The most common question I keep getting is “What problems does it solve?” and when I mention all the features it has (dependency injection, wiring, bean management, event publishing/subscribing, etc) [...]
NFJS Gateway Fall Edition
October 2nd, 2007
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This past weekend I had the joy to attend NFJS once again (thanks Paul!) and, for the 3rd time in a row, I’ve found it to be one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended… and that’s saying a lot when it has OOPSLA and Agile to showdown against. I think it’s the energy and [...]
