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QCon day 4 – Kent Beck on Effective Design

March 13, 2008

Another excellent talk in which Kent provided his latest views on how he thinks problems should be solved from the design point of view. He started by following on from his keynote, pushing that we must design with people in mind; design for the skills of your availoble developers. The talk built up to five [...]

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QCon day 4 – keynote

March 13, 2008

Highlighting that the focus should be on social rather than technical skills Kent coaxed developers towards integration with the business people. He pointed out that honesty works and hiding behind complexity and changing requirements is not the best way to build business partners and get them to trust in the software your developing. This is [...]

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QCon day 2 – The Zen of Agile Management

March 11, 2008

I was not quite sure what to pick today, after almost going for Java Performance i opted for the Agile route. The session was not quite what i expected from the title or excerpt, but still very enjoyable. David Anderson came at agile almost from the standpoint of standard problem software projects. He looked at [...]

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QCon day 1 – Domain Specific Languages (DSL)

March 10, 2008

My last five conferences had been in San Francisco, so the howling winds and buckets of rain which destroyed my umbrella did not put me in the best, or driest of moods. However, i had registered for DSL with Martin Fowler, Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons, so i held hope. They did not disappoint, presenting [...]

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Incendiary Blue Open Source Java CMS

September 28, 2007

I have recently released content management system that i co-wrote. It’s a lightweight content management system that uses standard data and data structure formats to represent content structure and content. It is Java for platform independence, and utilizes tags or Java objects to incorporate content into HTML pages. It has some great feature for relational [...]

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How good is your software team?

May 30, 2007

Twice in the last week I have used a quick test to determine how well a team is coding and delivering projects. The test comes from Joel on Software and outlines twelve points to which you provide a yes or no answer: Do you use source control? Can you make a build in one step? [...]

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Project Launch – Essent Trading

December 21, 2006

My team have just launched site for Essent Trading . Its written in Java and uses an open source CMS called incendiary blue.

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