Martin Fowler has written a small post with a great example of how good imagination can be crucial to iteratively release software with a small subset of features. It's a funny example on how you quickly can get a product to market that actually works thus creating business value fast. I would probably have sent an email instead of a fax to keep things in electronic form, but that would of course ruin the title of the blog post :-)
The Eclipse Foundation has released its annual coordinated project release named Europa (last year it was Callisto). Europa features 21 Eclipse projects. Some of the important ones for me personally is the SOA Tools Project (STP 0.6) and Web Tools Project (WTP 2.0) which features support for Java EE 5 e.g. JAX-WS, JSF 1.2, visual editor etc. This is good news. Interesting how it compares to Red Hat Developer Studio (Eclipse + Exadel Studio + Hibernate Tools etc.) that should be released later this summer.
Computerworld.dk skrev idag i denne artikel at den moderne udvikler skal kunne håndtere en bred vifte af webteknologier, programmeringssprog, arkitekturer og udviklingsmetoder. Det er budskabet på konferencen JAOO, der finder sted i Århus.
Den helstøbte udvikler kender til nye webteknologier som Ajax, programmeringssprog som Java, C#, og Ruby, arkitekturer som SOA (serviceorienteret arkitektur), forskellige modelleringsværktøjer og agile udviklingsmetoder. I hvert fald hvis man skal tage JAOO-konferencens program som udtryk for, hvad den helstøbte udvikler er.
Så kan jeg jo bare glæde mig over at jeg er godt på vej til at blive en helstøbt udvikler, da det netop er ovenstående egenskaber jeg fokuserer på at lære og til dels allerede mestrer :-)
JAOO afvikles som sagt i Århus i denne uge, og der er en masse kloge hoveder som f.eks. Martin Fowler, Gregor Hohpe, Bertrand Meyer, Ed Burns, Nikhil Kothari osv. som det kunne have været fedt at høre.
In a blog post from Marty Andrews titled Defining software architecture roles he starts by saying that "software architect" is a heavily overloaded term in the industry and that a lot of people claim to be one. As he thinks it is source of confusion he defines three types of software architects, their roles and main focus area. The three types are:
You can read the rest of the definition for the three types in his blog post.
There are different opinions and comments on the subject in this article on TheServerSide.com. As of this writing 31 comments exist on the subject.
I just wanted to share a link I found in this post in Scott Guthrie’s blog. It’s a Library of Free Data Models that includes hundreds of sample database schemas for tons of topics or problem areas. Maybe you could get ideas for your next project on how to structure the database according to the problem area at hand??
Mikkel Byrsø Dan-Rognlie.
Cand.it (M.Sc. in Information Technology) from the IT-University of Copenhagen.
Instructor & Consultant at Lund & Bendsen A/S.
NB. Some posts in this blog are in Danish.
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