Jun
19
2009
At the DDD Exchange conference today in London, Eric Evans presented on “The good, the bad and the ugly” aspects of strategic design. Talking about several efforts to replace legacy systems he has encountered in past, he suggested that these were “traps that good and smart software people are more likely to fall into” [than those with less experience]. According to Evans, none of the conventional approaches to that problem are likely to succeed. Continue Reading »
Jun
10
2009
If you have followed my blog or been to any of my talks lately you probably heard about the innovative online gaming system I was working on or the blackjack game that was to be the first to launch on the gaming system. The game is finally live and operating, initially in a play-for-fun mode on Facebook. Try it out at http://apps.facebook.com/absoluteblackjack – I’d really love to hear your comments. If you participated in the Progressive .NET acceptance testing workshop last month, this is your chance to test what you learned that day!
May
17
2009
Just got notified that my talk proposal for Agile Testing Days is accepted — so I will be in Berlin in October this year. I will be speaking about specification workshops and how they help agile teams on the last day of the conference. For more information, see http://agiletestingdays.com.
Mar
28
2009
At the SQLBits Goes Forth conference in Manchester today, Ramesh Meyyappan demonstrated impacts of some new SQL Server 2008 features on query performance. One topic he tackled in particular is compression, offering advice when to apply it and when not to apply it. Continue Reading »
Mar
13
2009
Thanks very much to everyone attending my talk “Messaging is not just for investment banks” today at QCon London 2009. I really hope that you enjoyed it and that it made you think harder on where to use what (especially the folks that raised their hands when I asked who has the patterns I discussed in their code). You can download the slides from my talk from here.
I covered QCon in detail on this blog. See other reviews and news from the conference
