DatabaseThaw (28)
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Martin Fowler's Bliki (2)
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A few years ago I heard programming language people talk about the "Nuclear Winter" in languages caused by Java. The feeling was that everyone had so converged on Java's computational model (C# at that point seen as little more than a rip-off) that creativity in programming languages had disappeared. That feeling is now abating, but perhaps a more important thaw that might be beginning - the longer and deeper freeze in thinking about databases. Tim ...
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Matt McKnight said:
I just made a similar point in a meeting this week- integrating directly with the database is not smart. Even if it's an XML database.
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past said:
Martin Fowler is the latest big honcho to admit that there is life beyond RDBMSs.
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jchris said:
Martin Fowler on CouchDB
Stealing from your client (4)
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I had a (great) talk yesterday, introducing Active Record. During this talk, I reused Jeremy's statements about data access. If you write data access code, you are stealing from your client. Frans Bouma puts it beautifully: No customer should accept that the team hired for writing the line-of-business application has spend time on writing a report-control or for example a grid control. So why should a customer accept to pay for time spend on other ...
Specialize in Something Relevant (7)
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generalist: a person competent in several different fields or activitiesIf you read my blog entry on Language Specialization you might have concluded that I prefer generalists. If, in our industry, generalists were what the definition describes, then I would prefer generalists. Unfortunately, business software developers seem to have created their own definition of generalist.business software developing generalist: I know how to do the simplest tasks with many different languages/tools, but I can not be considered ...
Just an observation... (4)
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Something that's always slightly bemused me is that software development methodology is something you never seem to hear discussed in organizations whose business is technology. Product companies are certainly very interested in practices and tools to support those practices. (For example, product companies certainly care about testing practices.) But I never hear about a company like Red Hat paying any attention at all to the latest fashions sweeping through the world of agile consultants and ...
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baker said:
Can we stop taking and process and build something.
How To Kill A SOA Project - Or What Questions To Ask First Your Client (1)
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Adam Bien (2)
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SOA focusses on business and customer needs - what is a good thing. However it becomes often too expensive, or hard to estimate. The problem is seldom the technology - and always business, organizational issues and politics. Things, which cannot be fixed with any technology. There are some technical challenges, which can be derived from the distribution, reuse and orchestration. The following facts have impact not only to the technology, but especially for business - ...
Reducing the Cost of Change (4)
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The concept of reducing the cost of change is a one of the core values of agile practitioners. In essence, it boils down to being able to make changes when we want them. Practices such as TDD and Iterations enable us to actually make changes without attaching a high price point for them. Some tools make change much easier than others. Using NHibernate, I can evolve my data model (and notice that I am explicitly ...
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I remember reading Michael Lewis's "Liar's Poker" back in the day, and enjoying it, so it's not a big surprise that I also enjoyed reading his recent article on our financial crisis, "The End". But my reaction to the article is a little different than Tim Bray's "Angry" blog post. Anger is an understandable reaction; we've essentially been fleeced. But when you get fleeced, you have to realize that often you walked right into the ...
Adam Bien: Eclipse RCP vs. Netbeans RCP - and what really counts (3)
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I'm back from Netbeans World Tour from Poland so I'm totally unbiased :-). During the tour we discussed Eclipse RCP vs. Netbeans RCP again. Actually all of the comparisons I know right now are feature by feature comparisons, which are not very interesting for a real world project. Who cares about a slightly better help, or a different configuration of the menu system?. Both platforms are very comparable; Netbeans relies heavily on the ServiceLoader, which ...
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FreeMan said:
pretty fair comparison
Martin Fowler Bliki: EarlyPain (18)
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A few years ago I was talking with a client who told me something he didn't like about the agile approach we were using: "it's doesn't feel right to have these difficulties this early in the project". Contrary to his reaction, in my mind this early pain is one of the great benefits of an agile or indeed any iterative development process.I have many complaints about the waterfall process, but probably my greatest problem with ...
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gaba said:
Minél hamarabb jelentkezik a fájdalom, annál jobb.
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Shailesh said:
Good point!
