We just had our ThoughtWorks Australia Team Hug. It’s some sort of internal conference where everyone from Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane get together with some guests from overseas to get drunk (by the way, we are hiring). We also have presentations and many other work-related sessions.
This year I’ve held a session on a quite […]
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ThoughtWorks Australia TeamHug 2010: Why Enterprise Architectures Suck
Published by September 12th, 2010 in abstractions, components, domain driven design, enterprise architecture, events, layers, management, object orientation, soa, software architecture, software design, systems integration, thoughtworks and web. 3 CommentsDon’t Trust Fake IDs
Published by October 12th, 2009 in c#, domain driven design, java, layers, object orientation, software architecture, software design and web. 6 CommentsAfter so many years I thought that this was a dead topic but recently I saw at least two reasonably experienced developers having trouble with object identity and thought that it would be good to write about it.
Most languages define some kind of equality operator on objects, in Java, for example, that is the equals […]
Getting Cloudy: Clojure on Google App Engine
Published by April 8th, 2009 in business, case study, clojure, cloud computing, components, groovy, java, lisp, soa, software architecture, software design, thoughtworks, trends and web. 8 CommentsSome weeks ago I joined a handful of ThoughtWorkers invited to test the new Google AppEngine’s Java API. Unfortunately I had a project requiring a lot of attention during most of this period but once back on the beach I found some time to play around with it.
Cloudy Skies
Google AppEngine (GAE) is Google’s shot in […]
Gödel and Testing
Published by March 14th, 2009 in agile, books, clojure, components, layers, lisp, soa, software architecture, software design and web. 12 CommentsFor some months now I’ve being playing around the idea of writing a testing framework for Clojure. It started as just a more extensible fork of the fact library but now I’m trying to explore some funny ideas in the testing semantics.
Although this project is progressing too slowly it already spawned some other pet […]
What Is a Service?
Published by February 24th, 2009 in business, components, domain driven design, layers, soa, software architecture, software design, trends and web. 9 CommentsMore and more people are deploying Services, APIs and all kinds of distributed components. Major content providers are finally finding out that exposing their features to developers not only keep them relevant but also creates a nice ecosystem around their business.
When someone decides to expose a piece of software to others –being internal users in […]
Clouds: Solo and the Department Store
Published by January 23rd, 2009 in business, cloud computing, rails, ruby, soa, software architecture, trends and web. 0 CommentsI really like Amazon WebServices. I think they provide great and innovative features with an affordable price. I also like Engine Yard. Their plans are too expensive for most users but their commitment to a better open-source platform is remarkable. And I think they made a pretty interesting move in their new Solo offering.
Solo […]
Just a follow-up on my latest post about Browser Plus: the SDK is not available.
Howdy folks,
We’re extremely happy to announce the availability of the BrowserPlus SDK. This first SDK and the accompanying documentation gives you all the tools you’ll need to start extending the web using BrowserPlus. Getting started is easy, you can hop […]
Google NativeClient and Yahoo! BrowserPlus: ActiveX Strikes Back?
Published by December 16th, 2008 in trends and web. 2 CommentsRecently the two Internet giants -Google and Yahoo!- released very interesting products focused on breaking the limits imposed by browsers. Are they revamped versions of ActiveX?
Yahoo! Browser Plus
Last October Yahoo! opened its BrowserPlus platform. It is a portable plugin platform available for Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and others. BrowserPlus plugins are made available to JavaScript […]
Trying to Write Architecture Specs that Don’t Suck (much) - Part I: The Spec
Published by November 7th, 2008 in agile, object orientation, soa, software architecture, software design and web. 5 CommentsEven when working for an agile software development company you may be required to write an architecture spec. It may be a client requirement or may be something required in an RFP; once in a while you have to write something like this.
The first thought of someone in this situation is that she needs […]
Benchmarking Fairfax Media
Published by October 9th, 2008 in business, digital media and web. 1 CommentLiving in Melbourne for almost one year now it is pretty common for me to read Fairfax Media’s publications, especially The Age, a very popular Melbournian newspaper. I believe it’s the most informative general news periodic I’ve read around here. Reading its online version is always a painful experience though. I’m no user experience expert […]
