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 [...]