Reality Loop

August 27, 2009
Learned Today: Rails is a Harvested Framework

From ASP.NET MVC in Action (chapter 11): Unlike many other MVC frameworks, Ruby on Rails is a harvested framework, one that was extracted from a real-world application: 37signals’ application Basecamp. Because Ruby on Rails is a harvested framewor...
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August 25, 2009
Michael C. Feathers: Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design

Michael Feathers (author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code) gave an interesting talk at the Norwegian Developer Conference: Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design. The video of the talk can be found on this page. Here is a short trans...
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August 24, 2009
Learned Today: From the Caves to Rambo

Today I came across some funny programmer classifications on the c2 wiki: Cave Programmer Cowboy Coder Rambo Coder Guerilla Coder Update: Thanks pablohess for pointing me to this: 10 types of programmers you'...
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August 23, 2009
Announcement: Zühlke Blogstream Transfer

I will be leaving Zühlke at the end of August. The Zühlke Blogstream I aggregated, will be maintained by Stefan Jäger. Stefans aggregated Google Reader URL is here. The RSS-Feed has not changed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/zuehlke follow m...
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August 17, 2009
Writing Unit-Tests for Java in Groovy: Not so brilliant after all?

Update 2009-08-18: I did only get halfway to true enlightenment... Dierk König was so kind to correct me in his comment (see comments bellow). Thanks! There is advice out there, that it is a good idea to use Groovy for unit-testing your Ja...
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