Flex Frameworks
Recently there has been a lot of discussion at my office, and online about whether or not a framework is necessary in Flex. Before revealing my opinion I wanted to go over a few reasons why I believe...
View ArticleWhen is a Tool not a Tool?
A couple weeks ago my colleague Brian LeGros published an article about Object Persistance and Architecture. It was a very good article in his series on design practices, but it made me think about...
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Eric Evans Presentation at JAOO
I was clicking through infoq this morning, and came across a presentation by Eric Evans on DDD. Eric wrote the book Domain Driven Design. I have not yet had the pleasure to read this book, but I will...
View ArticleJava is not Statically Typed (right now)
What?!?1?!/!? That is right, I said it Java is not statically typed and by proxy is not safer than dynamic languages. Zealots HALT! We can fix this, and I intend to add some gas to the fire that people...
View ArticleThe tools we use
A few months ago I made an observation about the software development profession that I simply brushed off as unimportant. Now I still feel it is equally unimportant, but in the spirit of Obi...
View ArticleJRuby, Ruby gem command conflict
I would have to assume that there are plenty of developers out there that want to install JRuby and Ruby on the same machine. There is a tragic flaw with this, the gem command is the same for both. If...
View ArticleWhat makes a great developer?
Passion. I have come to the conclusion that, that simple word is what separates an average developer from a great developer. IQ, education, degree, books, none of that matters, these are all symptoms...
View ArticleEasyMock Exception when calling createMock
I admit this is probably an obscure error, but I didn’t find anyone else talking about it. So, in an effort to help some other poor sap like me out… If you receive this error in EasyMock 2.3...
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Program to an interface not an Interface
For the longest time I have thought I was crazy, because I just didn’t see the benefit of programming to an Interface. I agreed it was good from a design perspective, but as an implementation I saw no...
View ArticleWhy Defensive Programming is Rubbish
There are many ways to classify a programming style. One of the classifications I hear a lot at my current place of employment is Defensive Programming. Before I worked here I had noticed the style but...
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