Gojko Adzic

At the QCon London 2009 conference today, Eric Evans presented recent advancements in Domain Driven Design in the talk titled What I’ve learned about DDD since the book. Evans started the presentation by saying that it has been five years since the DDD book was published, and projects which he has worked on meanwhile and teams he helped have given him new insights and ideas since then. Here are the the things he pointed out: Continue Reading »

Dion Hinchcliffe presented a keynote titled Transforming Software Architecture with Web as Platform today at QCon London 2009 conference, focusing on how advances in the web space affect software companies and their products. Continue Reading »

Attila Szegedi today suggested using JavaScript as a scripting language for server side JVM systems, during his JavaScript in the Enterprise talk at QCon London 2009 conference. Szegedi named stack-based continuations as a huge advantage of that approach. Stack-based continuations are effectivelly asynchronous calls with a callback, but without the weird code that typically comes with closures, asynchronous calls and callbacks. Continue Reading »

Geir Magnusson from 10gen presented a talk titled Cloud Data Persistence or ‘We’re in a database reneaissance – pay attention” today at QCon London 2009. The main message of his talk was that “physical limitations of today’s technology combined with the computational complexity of conventional relational databases are driving databases into new exciting spaces”, or to put it simpler the database landscape is changing and we should keep our eyes on that. Continue Reading »

During the Test Driven Development: Ten Years Later talk today at QCon 2009 in London, Steve Freeman and Michael Feathers presented a “random walk through the history of TDD” and key lessons learned by the community in that period. Continue Reading »