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The tech crew enjoys some breakfast before the morning keynote.
Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009
Jon’s a fine fellow, but his talked (to me) seemed mostly to be stating the obvious. I’ll just provide his “Rules to Code By:”
It’s the Business, Stupid
Not all shiny new toys should be fondled
A fool with a tool is still […]
Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009
Scott Davis was the perfect presenter for the deadly “after lunch” session period. Interesting that his Groovy introduction is in a breakout room rather than the main ballroom, and there is not an empty seat in the house. Everyone is fascinated by these new powerful JVM languages, including me.
Scott started […]
Notes from a session at TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009
Rod addressed some emerging best practices based around annotation-based application configuration using Spring 2.5 and later.
The emerging best practice is to use the @Autowired annotation rather than @Resource. He demonstrated how to disambiguate bean references with @Qualifier. He also showed how to create your own custom annotations […]
Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009
At a keynote talk, you expect sweeping generalizations and “big picture” insights.
Rod pointed out some things that I have watched happening over the past two decades, namely the rise and fall of complex monolithic software systems as an expensive luxury that falls in favor of simplicity along with economic cycles.
“Enterprise […]
Notes from a talk at TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009
Hans is the project lead for a build system called Gradle. He presents it as a step beyond Ant and Maven.
I think he has a point. His system uses Groovy scripts as build scripts instead of XML. The advantages of having a full language available in build […]
Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009
I was interested in this talk because we use a lot of Flex in MyAds for MySpace. Ward is an Adobe guy.
He began with some flashy demos, an interesting way to enter car accident information for an insurance form on a web site, and a desktop application called SalesBuilder.
Flex components: […]
Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium, March 2009
Why Ruby? He talks about the known good language features, but the biggest reason is Rails. Ruby is actually an older language than Java.
JRuby 1.1 incorporates a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, and in many tests is faster than the Matz Reference Implementation.
In answer to a question, JRuby would exclude some gems […]
Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009
Jon Kern from TogetherSoft, doing this since the 80’s.
Trick Q: How is software built? What’s the most important piece? Requirements? Customers? A problem? A: 1. People 2. Process, and 3. Tools
Q: How do we start? Use cases? Architecture? Domain? Just start coding? Is architecture emergent? A: It can be … […]
These are random notes from Neal Ford’s keynote talk at TheServerSide Java Symposium.
The “furniture police” he mentions are the management folks that unintentionally take productive people and squeeze them into environments such as cubicle farms that make productivity difficult. It’s also a metaphor for every distracting thing in the workplace.
The reference comes the book Peopleware: Productive […]
Jane and I wanted to set up WordPress blogs with all the bells and whistles, and we had a quiet “pajama” weekend on tap. My poor old server is running an old SuSE distribution (9.2) which hasn’t been supported with updates for several years now.
So you know what the food chain is like for manual updates. […]
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