Archive for May, 2008

  • This may be a bit on short notice, but we are organising a follow-up to the Castle talk from a few weeks ago on the 12th. The talk will be focused on Developing Ajax Web applications with Castle Monorail and the best practices for developing web 2.0 applications with Castle....

    Developing Ajax web applications with Castle Monorail

    This may be a bit on short notice, but we are organising a follow-up to the Castle talk from a few weeks ago on the 12th. The talk will be focused on Developing Ajax Web applications with Castle Monorail and the best practices for developing web 2.0 applications with Castle....

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  • In the third part of the Castle tutorial, we look into the features of Monorail that allow us to save a lot of time and effort when developing web applications. We explore advanced Monorail concepts that help us delegate error processing and authentication to the framework and reuse templates. We...

    Castle Demo App #3: Saving time and effort with advanced Monorail features

    In the third part of the Castle tutorial, we look into the features of Monorail that allow us to save a lot of time and effort when developing web applications. We explore advanced Monorail concepts that help us delegate error processing and authentication to the framework and reuse templates. We...

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  • Misunderstandings caused by wrong assumptions or supposedly self-evident knowledge are, in my opinion, among the biggest obstacles to great software. Developers and business people can have a great time talking to each other, agree on everything and still understand two completely different things. Problems like that will not cause a...

    The tale of two bridges

    Misunderstandings caused by wrong assumptions or supposedly self-evident knowledge are, in my opinion, among the biggest obstacles to great software. Developers and business people can have a great time talking to each other, agree on everything and still understand two completely different things. Problems like that will not cause a...

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  • It was a great pleasure to do the talk on Agile Web Development with the Castle Project tonight at Skills Matter — judging by the number of people that turned up, this is a very interesting topic and I’m sorry that we did not get through the entire thing (thanks...

    Links and slides from the Castle talk

    It was a great pleasure to do the talk on Agile Web Development with the Castle Project tonight at Skills Matter — judging by the number of people that turned up, this is a very interesting topic and I’m sorry that we did not get through the entire thing (thanks...

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  • It’s a great pleasure to announce that Marisa Seal and I will jointly be presenting a session on Effective Test Driven Database Development at Agile 2008 in Toronto. Our session is scheduled for the afternoon on August 7th. We’ll talk about the reasons why TDD is not as common in...

    DBFit at Agile 2008

    It’s a great pleasure to announce that Marisa Seal and I will jointly be presenting a session on Effective Test Driven Database Development at Agile 2008 in Toronto. Our session is scheduled for the afternoon on August 7th. We’ll talk about the reasons why TDD is not as common in...

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