Reality Loop

January 02, 2012
Presentation: Can JavaScript be elegant?

Last month I was invited again to speak at the SBB Developer Day 2011. Here is the presentation I held about JavaScript: Kann JavaScript elegant sein? View more presentations from jbandi I enjoyed the event very much, and I hope to be invited...
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December 02, 2011
Opinions: Scala

Can you spot the difference: Scala is a serious option for organizations developing on a JVM platform. - Martin Fowler The friction and complexity that comes with using Scala instead of Java isn't offset by enough productivity benefit or redu...
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November 23, 2011
Model, model thou art my riddle!

Can you spot the difference: In a Model View Controller application, you only ever want to see SQL code in the model.- Rails Receipes The domain model should be independent of persistence implementation details.- Domain Driven Design and Dev...
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November 18, 2011
Watch out: The world is changing!

Lately I seem more susceptible to realize how fast the world is changing. Probably I am getting old...At a recent lecture, Martin Herdina (CEO, Wikitude) showed how the mobile phone changes our lives (and he displayed slides you don't usually see...
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November 14, 2011
Dysfunction: Headhunters & Short Time Contracting

I blogged before about the desolate state of our industry. Here is one clear symptom underlining once more that there is something wrong: Regularly when a government IT project here in Switzerland has an open vacancy for some months, I am gettin...
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