Archive for October, 2008
« Previous EntriesAnd the winner is…
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008JAOO is over and we can crown our supreme winner of the commenting contest. There was several good candidates so we chose the good ones, wrote the commenters name on a piece of paper for each comment, put the notes in a hat and drew the winner from those.
And the winner is… – Linda [...]
The future of programming languages
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008In this video Anders Hejlsberg takes a look at the future of programming languages and sees the trends; declarative, dynamic and concurrent. As the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the .NET Framework Anders Hejlsberg has a lot to say about this development – not just [...]
Michael Koziarski (Rails core team) interview
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Michael Koziarski is one of the contributors to the Ruby on Rails framework and he visited JAOO with a talk about Rails performance. I interviewed him about the upcoming Rails release, the future of the framework, and about that special “something” that gives Rails its edge.
1) What is the single most important improvement planned for [...]
Impressions from JAOO 2008 (3)
Saturday, October 4th, 2008By Jan Reher, Senior Developer, Systematic Software Engineering A/S. jan.reher@systematic.com.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel: 50 in 50
It was theatre. It was beautiful. I will not attempt to give a summary.
For those open to the message, it should serve to remind us of our place in history.
Kevlin Henney and Frank Buschmann: Five considerations [...]
Relive the best JAOO Moments
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Did you go to one of those talks where you got the feeling of “I completely understand this, and I’m going to use it when I get home”, just to find out you’ve forgotten it all? Then you can help yourself relive the talk by looking at the slides. Slides can be downloaded from jaoo.dk. [...]
Trends at JAOO 2008
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008It is the 3rd day of the conference at JAOO 2008. I’ve been to a number of interesting talks; it is now interesting to summarize some of the trends among speakers and their topics.
Innovation in software, or the evolution of “doing the same things better”, seems to come from 2 sources: 1) programming language paradigms [...]
Wednesday’s comments winners
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008In the aftermath of another wonderful JAOO Århus, we’ve crawled through the comments from Wednesday and found the following noteworthy posts:
Kim Hansen in category “Most controversial” for claiming Dave Thomas doesn’t get agile
Rasmus Fruergaard in category “Most poetic” for his haiku.
Jeppe Rishede in category “Best bragging” for his list of swag (and sorries to Linda [...]
Impressions from JAOO 2008 (2 ½)
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008By Jan Reher, Senior Developer, Systematic Software Engineering A/S. jan.reher@systematic.com.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 (continued)
Peter Zimmerer: Software Architecture and Testing
The talk concerned the interface between the test field of knowledge and the architecture field of knowledge. Or: What every architect should know about test, and how architects’ involvement is essential for successful testing.
Historically, testing has moved [...]
Impressions from JAOO 2008 (2)
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008By Jan Reher, Senior Developer, Systematic Software Engineering A/S. jan.reher@systematic.com.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Lars Bak: Google V8
V8 is the JavaScript engine (JSE) that runs inside Google chrome and executes the JavaScript that provides much of the dynamic contents of today’s web pages. The JSE is crucial for browser performance and responsiveness. Google felt that most JSEs [...]
Microsoft does GWT
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008I just went to Erik Meijer’s talk on Javascript as an Assembly Language. Turns out to be a GWT clone. With a new Program Counter. And possibility of compiling to either Javascript or Silverlight. The question now is: Why, and when does IE get a faster Javascript engine?
Tuesday’s comments winners
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008The comments contest winners for Tuesday have now been selected, and are as follows:
Most insightful: Eric van Oosten for his comment on the Designed as Designer talk
Best flamebait: Hugo Gundewall for his comment on his comment about more project manager talks at JAOO.
Best correction: Paul for his comment on teenage sex.
The winners have been contacted [...]
The ultimate craftsman at work
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008I admit it. I’m a sucker for Kevlin Henney. I’ll basically attend any talk with him in the speaker’s slot.
No matter what the subject is, his presentation skills, the craftmanship of being on stage, never ceases to amaze me.
This year, it happened so that his “Programmer’s Dozen” has been mentioned to me a few times [...]
A lively talk
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008I’m here attending Dan Ingalls (Smalltalk guy) who has hooked up with Sun Microsystems and done something they call the lively kernel. It is kind of an IDE running in your browser in Javascript, using SVG to display everything, and has a really Sqeakish look and feel.
Since it is Dan Ingalls, it has that whole [...]
A Dozen Patterns of Conference Attendance
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008These patterns where composed last night at the Jam Session by the Gang Of Drunks (GOD). They are patterns for conference attendance – focused on maximizing ROI.
With no further ado and no more motivational speech, the patterns are:
Suppress Bodily Functions – Having drunk deeply from the stream of free swag, free food and not least, [...]
Lego talk missed the mark
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008When I read the program and discovered that there was a talk about Lego, I cleared my schedule and made sure that I had time for it. The talk is about a new Lego project WeDo or rather it should have been, but right now it is just about the Lego company.
I don’t want to [...]