Object Oriented Architecture As It Should Have Been – Agile Architecture
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Jim Coplien superstarred a talk on Agile Architecture – which turned out to be a whole new design paradigm. This has the JAOO crowd going – with activity popping up everywhere
Your client’s needs – real vs spoken (you’re the architect!)
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008An ultra-short note from “Clairvoyance for connoisseurs – Identifying Your Client’s Needs and Documenting the Same” by Chris Rupp:
“When acting as a software architect, don’t try to solve the business problems of your client”. In other words, stick to being the IT guy / girl and stay clear of business consulting.
This is one hard piece [...]
Monday’s most popular talk was a Server Comet
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Measured as ratio between green cards and all cards turned in for each talk, Monday’s most popular talk was Kaazing Gateway: An Open Source HTML 5 Websocket Server.
Beautiful Code in the City
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008I missed the Java History and Outlook talk (it was crowded), so I went to Beautiful Software with Dr. Michele Lanza. It was a wild shot, but it turned out to be a good one. Lanza talked about his research project with visualizing code using some quite interesting tools. We’ve probably all tried generating a [...]
The Demo Ghost spares nobody – V8 miraculous surviver
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008It seems that these are the times where every day on JAOO must begin with the sad sound of Kresten Thorup sighing “… this is embarassing“. Tuesday morning at the keynote, when Google’s Lars Bak went on stage to present the V8 engine of Chrome, something made the laptop containing the slides for Lars’ talk [...]
Railing sketches – metaprogramming Ruby for fun and profit
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008These are some thoughts about the Railing track that I attended Monday at JAOO 2008.
I’ve been playing around with Ruby on Rails for some 5 months now, and have gotten steadily more eager to find out what exactly this Rails magic is that developers rave about and big companies often mention when introducing their Rails-killer [...]
XML Persistence: database-agnosticity and better performance
Monday, September 29th, 2008Imagine this: you have an Oracle DB-powered e-shop and you become a huge success. You need to scale your site and DB to 50 million users from the modest numbers you currently have.
The XML representation of your data adheres to some standard YourML, a subset of XML. This data is represented hierarchically rather than relationally, [...]
Must see Tuesday
Monday, September 29th, 2008Not quite sure what you should attend? Maybe these three talks will be something for you.
Tuesday, 10:30 – 12:20: Java History and Outlook by Eberhard Wolff
Good story telling is always exciting, and here should be a good opportunity to hear some good anecdotes. At least, that’s what I’m hoping for. This is also one of [...]