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January 19, 2009
Only dead fish swim with the stream...
While I am still pondering about my idea of the transformation from Coding Whore to Opinionated Developer, I stumbled over some quite opinionated statements: Joe Armstrong (inventor of Erlang) about object oriented programming: When I was fir...
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January 08, 2009
Give me a hint: How are programming languages related to problem domains?
From Jay Fields' The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers: Java and C# are not silver bullets. The languages are good solutions to a certain class of problems, using them for problems that could be better solved with a different language st...
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January 08, 2009
Followup: From coding whore to opinionated developer?
My post "From coding whore to opinionated developer?" earned some comments which put me in the position of a spoiled whining smartass... Now Jay Fields has posted The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers. Here two quotes that remind ...
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January 05, 2009
From coding whore to opinionated developer?
Have you also been on projects where things were done entirely different to your own opinions. Maybe they totally contradicted values that are most important for you? But you coped and went along? Did you feel compromised, even dirty, for no...
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December 26, 2008
Simplistic CRUD application with Grails on GlassFish V3 Prelude
My colleague Matt wrote a brilliant tutorial: EJB 3.1 and JSF 2.0 with GlassFish V3 Prelude. A commenter on Matt's post claimed that using Grails to create the same application would be a tremendous simplification. I wanted to find out if this w...
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