Microformat schema are sorely needed. Parsing for microformats presently feels…clunky.
Tag Archives: programming
Programming is brain surgery
April 21, 2006 – 1:31 pm
Eric Lippert has posted some good thoughts on why writing code is more like brain surgery than rocket science, but by the looks of the comment thread (and those URLs) writing usable software is more difficult still. Maybe Microsoft should follow my example, put aside their prejudices, and configure WordPress with permalinks that end […]
Advanced Groovy
March 20, 2005 – 12:00 am
I skipped the intro session, but attended Rod Cope’s second session on Groovy?. His presentation was a strong collection of “look how easy this is” examples that made quite a compelling case for Groovy (or, arguably, any dynamic language with closures, dynamic extensions, etc.). I am attracted to Groovy because it builds on […]
Designing and Developing Pluggable App Architecture
March 20, 2005 – 12:00 am
David Bock clearly had not given this talk before, and it was not quite as informative as I’d hoped.
I did get a sharper picture of how plugins should interact with their hosting application, via a specific API (which will be applied to a new SnipSnap API). He also showed a nice workflow configuration format […]
Herding Racehorses and Racing Sheep
March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am
Dave Thomas has a great presentation (that he somehow seems to enjoy giving despite doubtless hundreds of sessions) on the progression of people from novice to expert.
Great subtitle quote: “People improvement trumps process improvement”
Mostly, this was an application of the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition?. As Dave so eloquently explains, the model tracks a […]
The Fallacies of Enterprise Systems
March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am
Ted Neward put on an extremely disappointing show. He simply recycled the The Eight Fallacies of
Distributed Computing plus two predictable additions, and droned on and on in an effort to fill the time alloted reading through them. Most of that filler was devoted to his own ego.
Naked Objects Applied
March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am
Another great presentation from Eitan Suez full of live demonstrations. Naked Objects is a fun framework that seeks to automatically generate your presentation and persistence layers from your model classes. The buzzword of choice is “radical simplification,” which Eitan supported by a great quote:
If anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when […]
AJaX- Creating Next Generation Web Applications
March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am
Ben Galbraith presenting without his usual partner, Dion Almaer. I didn’t learn anything new; it was largely an AJa X? demo. At least Ben is an entertaining speaker. Perhaps their new site, Ajaxian, will prove more educational over time.
XML Data Binding with JiBX
March 18, 2005 – 12:00 am
Eitan Suez gave a great presentation on JiBX. He had great slides for reference, but spent the session time demonstrating the use with real, from-scratch examples. He only returned to the slides for some strong conceptual presentations, such as the weaving of XML and Java references together into a mapping file.
JiBX itself looks […]
Shale - The Next Struts
March 18, 2005 – 12:00 am
David Geary, a fellow with a lot of Struts cred and a serious affection for JSF gave a repeat of his JavaOne talk on Shale?. It was largely an introduction, a bit of sales pitch, and some Craig McClanahan hero worship (which I’ve been guilty of myself, of course).
David is a very knowledgeable guy, […]
