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Tag Archives: design
Managing development flow to go faster
Three from Jon Moore (he doesn’t post that often, but when he does, they are must reads, so subscribe!): Jon Moore: “Managing Software Development Flow” Jon Moore: Intuitions about Software Development Flow Jon Moore: How to Go Faster And one … Continue reading
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Readings on DSLs (Domain Specific Languages)
Martin Fowler: DomainSpecificLanguage Martin Fowler: FluentInterfaces InfoQ: Martin Fowler: Introduction to Domain Specific Languages The Structure of Structures: Are DSLs simply XML Hell? Ward Cunningham Wiki: Domain Specific Language defmacro.org: The Nature of Lisp Wikipedia: Domain-specific languages
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Ever see the “Mother of all Demos”?
In 1968 Douglas C. Engelbart, along with a team of 17 researchers at Stanford, in a 90 minute taped demonstration, showed us what was then the future – which is now the present (and soon to be the past?) – … Continue reading
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Joshua Bloch on “How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters”
This is a great Google Tech Talk and while it may be Java-centric, I think much applies to any language you work with. YouTube: GoogleTechTalks: “How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters”: This is what I believe … Continue reading
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Recent programming career recent reads
Tony Lukasavage: “Programmers: Why do we do it?”: …those who truly love programming see it as an art form. Its not just a technical pursuit, but one that allows the leveraging of one’s unique talent and views. You bring a … Continue reading
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TDD and Design
codeartisan: Jon Moore: “Tales of Test-Driven Development” – Jon describes how TDD, influenced by a class Robert Martin held at CIM last week, improved the design of an immutable Map implementation he’s been working on.
‘Scalable system patterns’ links for October 30th, 2010
The BIG Software Blog: “Scalability patterns and an interesting story…” Lori Mac Vittie, of F5 Networks, comments on the above piece on High Scalability and the need for ‘Devops’ to really pull it off: “Applying Scalability Patterns To Infrastructure Architecture” … Continue reading
Programming practice links for October 18, 2010
mockyblog: “Programmers: how to make the systems guy love you” – common sense advice that you’d be surprised how many don’t follow. InfoQ: Abel-Avram: “10 Suggestions for the Architect of an Agile Team” – if you are practicing an agile-lite … Continue reading
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Zed A. Shaw – “the novelty of the complex version makes it seem ‘clean’.”
Read Zed A. Shaw in his latest post, “The Wrong Aesthetic”, on a common coding craft error.
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Recent reads on API Design
ACM Queue: Ken Arnold: “Programmers are People, Too” Communications of the ACM: “API Design Matters” JavaWorld: “Joshua Bloch: A conversation about design” InfoQ: Joshua Bloch: “Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design” InfoQ: Video: Joshua Bloch: “How to Design a Good API … Continue reading
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