As I said here before I was in Brazil some weeks ago to present at a conference. I had a really great time over there with some amazing people and would like to thank Caelum for their hard work in creating such a great conference. I’m making the slide deck and notes available in my […]
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I Wish I Knew That Before Getting This Job – Slides and (Long) Notes
Published by November 24th, 2009 in agile, business, c#, components, domain driven design, domain specific languages, economics, events, java, layers, management, object orientation, software architecture, software design, thoughtworks and trends. 0 CommentsGetting Cloudy: Clojure on Google App Engine
Published by April 8th, 2009 in business, case study, clojure, cloud computing, components, groovy, java, lisp, soa, software architecture, software design, thoughtworks, trends and web. 8 CommentsSome weeks ago I joined a handful of ThoughtWorkers invited to test the new Google AppEngine’s Java API. Unfortunately I had a project requiring a lot of attention during most of this period but once back on the beach I found some time to play around with it.
Cloudy Skies
Google AppEngine (GAE) is Google’s shot in […]
Gödel and Testing
Published by March 14th, 2009 in agile, books, clojure, components, layers, lisp, soa, software architecture, software design and web. 12 CommentsFor some months now I’ve being playing around the idea of writing a testing framework for Clojure. It started as just a more extensible fork of the fact library but now I’m trying to explore some funny ideas in the testing semantics.
Although this project is progressing too slowly it already spawned some other pet […]
What Is a Service?
Published by February 24th, 2009 in business, components, domain driven design, layers, soa, software architecture, software design, trends and web. 8 CommentsMore and more people are deploying Services, APIs and all kinds of distributed components. Major content providers are finally finding out that exposing their features to developers not only keep them relevant but also creates a nice ecosystem around their business.
When someone decides to expose a piece of software to others –being internal users in […]
The Theory we Forget: Proper Packaging
Published by September 16th, 2008 in books, components, layers, object orientation, soa, software architecture and software design. 7 CommentsIn a recent development project the team has decided to create two versions of the same generated artifact -a JAR file containing a message-processing framework that other systems will use. The full JAR would depend on weblogic.jar, a 50+MB gorilla, but as the features that create this dependency are not used by all our […]
