Programmer’s dozen – programming best practices
Monday, January 19th, 2009Take control of your code with these programming best practices from Kevlin Henney. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Kevlin used a trash can, vampires, a train wreck, whiskey and much more to make you understand and remember his 13 constructive points (a programmer’s dozen) about programming and code smells. As this is a must see, we [...]
Linguistic Diversity and the Illusion of Recency
Monday, September 29th, 2008In spite of its Java-based origins, JAOO has become one of the principal events for showcasing the current programming language boom in commercial and open-source development. There is a cycle of Cambrian-like expansion and KT-esque extinction events that programming languages appear to go through in terms of popularity. In truth, there are always many languages [...]
A Taxonomy of IT Conferences
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008JAOO is under a month away, so it’s time to check the schedule and think about what to see. It should be, anyways, but we all know that it won’t happen until 5 minutes before the first session. However, when the time comes, there will be some difficult decisions to be made – whether to [...]