Christin Gorman is my hero! After her Hibernate bashing she now follows up with baking analogies applied to the current state of Scrum:
Putting an architect in a scrum team is like putting mayonaise in cake
Putting an architect in a scrum team is like putting mayonaise in cake - Christin Gorman from Roots conference on Vimeo.
Highly recommended: the first 5 minutes of Dan North reading from the Book of Geek. Its funny and poignant:
In the beginning the software was without form, and void.
The Architects said "Let there be light" and they separated the light from the darkness.
And they called the light Architecture and the darkness Hacking.
And Maven brought forth a Plague of Apache Commons, and there was a flood of all the Libraries of the Internet as a judgement upon the people.
In a Model View Controller application, you only ever want to see SQL code in the model.
The domain model should be independent of persistence implementation details.
Using C means that people [...] don't screw things up with any idiotic "object model" crap.
I'm testing outside the spec because the specification is just a rumor.
Parallel realities are far too complex and costly to model in most business systems.
An Illustrated History of Failure is a very funny presentation about failures in software projects.
In the software industry we often use analogies from civil engineering. We use terms like "architecture" and "construction".
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.
This is another tidbit from Dan North at the parkbench panel discussion on the Agile Testing, Specifications and BDD exchange.
Are you sure that what you do is software engineering? NASA is doing software engineering!
In commercial software the average cost for a line of code is estimated at 5$.
At NASA the average cost for a line of code is 5'000$.
They are not just Pair Programming, what they do could be called Swarm Programming!
Trolling with Java Web Frameworks.
I don't think you can count someone even as a semi-decent java dev until he wrote his very own web framework at least once in his life (from here)
"Humans and higher primates share approximately 97% of their DNA in common. Recent research in primate programming suggests computing is a task that most higher primates can easily perform. Visual Basic 6.0™ was the preferred IDE for the majority of experiment primate subjects."
If browsers were women...
If your browser was a dude...
If this is another of those days, getting bogged in the trenches of enterprise IT, here might be your entertaining break:
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Cave Programmer |
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Rambo Coder |
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follow me on twitter, I need some friends :-)movies.addMovie(new Movie("Quentin Tarantino", "Reservoir Dogs", 1992));
movies.addMovie(new Movie("Joel Coen", "Fargo", 1996));
movies.addMovie(new Movie("Joel Coen", "The Big Lebowski", 1998));
Thanks Stefan for pointing me to this:
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.
Today it was finally confirmed, that my journey to braindeadness was successful ... Im officially a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 ...
