Reality-Loop

  • October 01, 2008

    Scrum pigs - musing about commitment

    Programming is very difficult. To do it well requires a phenomenal amount of commitment. To motivate yourself and keep yourself committed, you need to have pride in what you're doing. If instead you consider yourself a mechanical assembly line wo...

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  • September 29, 2008

    Certification to become braindead?

    The following question and solution is from the preparation for the Sun Certfied Enterprise Architect (SCEA) from the Sun Learning Center: You are architecting a real-time system with high usage and high volumes of transactions. You need an MVC...

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  • September 25, 2008

    Tidbits from Adam Bien

    I was attending Adam Biens workshop 'Designing The Boundary - Rich UI Meets Efficient Java EE Backend' at the workshop-days of /ch/open. I blogged his comment about rich- vs. anemic domain models here. Here some more tidbits: If an applicat...

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  • September 25, 2008

    Thursday: Meeting Day

    Since reading Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies I find me spotting for patterns of project behavior... My hall of fame: All roads lead to design. The parade of left parentheses. Lately I am spotting some traces of a Nanny.

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  • September 24, 2008

    Making money getting real ...

    37signals shows us an elegant way to make money ... ... a nice fact to throw into the face of the next one who claims there is no money in Ruby on Rails.

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