Reality Loop

September 22, 2009
Illustrative Programming: I am a skeptic! (and I am not alone)

I have stated several times, that I don't believe in visual modeling and cannot share the enthusiasm that a certain branch of MDSD people have for visual modeling: Visual modeling: Is it worth it? An example... Musing about Code Gen...
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September 20, 2009
Quick Tip: Additional File Types for OS X Quick Look

As I am diving into cucumber, I would like OS X Quick Look to display my .feature files.(and while I was already at it, I also enabled Quick Look for .properties and .textile files) This is what I did: I navigated into the TextMate package (rig...
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September 17, 2009
Need a break - care for a flame-war?

If this is another of those days, getting bogged in the trenches of enterprise IT, here might be your entertaining break: There is an exceptional flame-war going on between Alex Yakunin of ORMBattle.net and Ayende! Some of the skirmishes ar...
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September 14, 2009
The passionate developer: I do like my profession, I don't like my job

Update 2009-09-14: There are interesting discussions of this post on hackernews. Thanks! To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one’s bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion. I am ve...
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August 31, 2009
Software development: It's all about trust ...

Software development is a lot about trust. But It is hard to trust someone, if you really do not understand what he is doing. It's even harder if you suspect that he does not understand what you want! This is a major problem in enterprise so...
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