Archive for the ‘QCon’ Category

Command Query Separation (2008-11-20)

Does this sound familiar to you? From time to time someone delivers you answers to questions that have been on your mind for quite a while. You didn’t find an answer on your own and most of the people you talked with either didn’t care or hadn’t satisfying answers for you. When you finally hear [...]

Quote of the day (2008-11-19)

Enjoy the following comment I’ve heard today in the Domain Specific Languages track:
. . .  XML is data dressed up as a hooker . . .

Thoughts on (J / Iron)Ruby (2008-11-18)

Today I attended a tutorial about JRuby and JRuby on Rails. It was presented by Ola Bini from Thoughtworks, who did the more general part on (J)Ruby and Nick Sieger from Sun, who did the Rails stuff. What can I say, it was really cool.
I’ve been curious about Ruby for quite a while now, mostly [...]

Sessions I plan to visit at QCon SF 08 (2008-11-17)

Monday (Tutorials): Stuart Charlton: "Cloud Computing for Developers and Architects" Ola Bini & Nick Sieger: Getting started with JRuby and JRuby on Rails
Tuesday (Tutorials):
Neal Ford & Martin Fowler & Rebecca Parsons: "Domain Specific Languages" [...]