Art and code – obscure or beautiful code?
Friday, November 21st, 2008Through the ages a lot of interesting (and some obscure) programming languages have entertained and confused people. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Guy L. Steele and Richard P. Gabriel gave a presentation about languages and language constructs in a presentation that is a work of art in itself.
In the presentation called “50 in 50″ you [...]
The nature of domain specific languages (DSLs)
Monday, August 4th, 2008DSLs has been around for a long time. They are nothing new but recently there has been a lot of buzz around them triggered by “the Ruby thing”. Martin Fowler is currently writing a book about DSLs and at the last JAOO conference in Aarhus, we asked him and Markus Völter to do an interview [...]
What is the next killer app for Ruby?
Monday, July 28th, 2008You know Ruby on Rails, right? But do you know that Ruby is so much more than a web development language?
Some of the recent Ruby popularity can certainly be contributed to the Ruby on Rails framework, but what now – what is the next thing in the Ruby Community? At JAOO Aarhus 2007 we asked [...]
Videos online
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008We have a series of videos from JAOO online now.
Martin Fowler and Marcus Völter discuss DSLs.
Bob Martin, Pete McBreen and Mike Feathers discuss “Software Craftmanship”
Kirk Pepperdine talks on Java Performance Tuning
Attila Szegedi, Charles Nutter, and Erik Meijer discuss dynamic languages and language environments for mixed programming languages
… and more.
Check it [...]
Ready to Roll
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008We’re ready to roll the new JAOO Community blog. In the next couple of months we will be releasing some video material that we have been working on for a while. Among these are a series of interviews, and a boat load of video footage from sessions in the conferences we’ve been running the last [...]