Reality-Loop

  • October 28, 2008

    Generic and generated - an oxymoron?

    < quick and not well thought out comment > Last week I was at an interesting presentation. Some developers were presenting some stuff they were doing with Eclipse EMF and CDO. This was interesting and gave me some things to ponder about ....

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  • October 27, 2008

    We are all amateurs blindly stumbling in the dark!

    Programming has become too complex. I suspect that we have lost it for good! Here is another evidence: Look at this blog post by Jeff Atwood about database deadlocks and look at the comments. The density of contradictions in the comments i...

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  • October 23, 2008

    stackoverflow - let it flow some more!

    I am pretty late in joining the choir, but I think stackoverflow.com is an amazing site. This is the very definition of Web 2.0. Just try it: ask a question and be amazed ... The brains behind the site are the heavyweights Joel "on Software"...

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  • October 20, 2008

    Java EE: The blue pill of enterprise development?

    One thing that stroke me, when I first came across Carbonado was that it was originally developed by Amazon for internal use. This is another example where a real big boy is not using standard technologies that are brain-fed to foot-soldiers lik...

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  • October 16, 2008

    Optimize your app - play Quake!

    The quake optimization rule: Your boss comes to you because your code is running too slow. You take a week to look at the code. Then you go back to your boss an say, that it takes you about 18 month to get a performance improvement by factor two...

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