Reality Loop

July 01, 2010
Speaking at /ch/open: Persistent domain models with JPA 2.0 and BeanValidation

As last year Simon and I will give a workshop at the /ch/open Workshop Tage 2010. This year the topic is “Persistent Domain Models with JPA 2.0 and Bean Validation”. Our workshop is on Wednesday, September 8th. Again the program of this ye...
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June 22, 2010
Outside-In development and Dependency Injection

The first chapter of Mannings upcoming book Dependency Injection in .NET has a nice introduction how to practice outside-in development and how it goes hand in hand with dependency injection.Read it yourself, the first chapter is available for free.
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June 20, 2010
Quotes of the week

The source code is the design! Code is text! The failures of MDA, Visual Programming and UML in the last twenty years have teached us that.- Uncle Bob, QCon 2010Visualization is for discovery. Code is for delivery.- Sebastien Lambla, speakers d...
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June 19, 2010
My beach lecture has arrived!

... unfortunately it will take another 3 weeks until I will arrive at the beach. PS: I am wondering if it is an insult for one of the books to be displayed along with the other? Probably I will find out ...
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June 17, 2010
Craftsmanship means we should refuse to work in dysfunctional environments!

My post "From coding whore to opinionated developer" last year had quite some comments.I was taking the position, that we developers do not have to put up with everything. As professionals we should set some minimal standards and if they are not a...
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