Sadek Drobi’s Blog

February 22, 2008

Ideal architecture is not always about ideal technology or techniques

Filed under: Architecture — Sadache @ 6:47 pm

The ideal architecture is not always the one based on choices that technically would be the best. It should indeed take into account requirements of different stakeholders, which may limit the scope of choice. Phillip Calçado argues that the development team counts among these stakeholders and that constraints resulting from development environment cannot be ignored by the architect.

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February 18, 2008

Coplien and Martin Debate TDD, CDD and Professionalism

Filed under: Agile Programming, JAOO, Delivering Value, Agile in the Enterprise, Useability — Sadache @ 10:41 am

On JAOO 2007 I could, with the help of Floyd, organize a debate between Bob Martin and James Coplien about TDD and DbC. This is the most interesting debate about the subject I’ve ever heard of. A lot of things I wanted to say have been said here. And I am proud to announce it :)

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/coplien-martin-tdd

Thanks Cope, thanks Bob.

 

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February 15, 2008

Communicating Intent through Idiom and Paradigm Selection

Filed under: Agile Programming, Functional Programming, Paradigm Oriented Programming Language — Sadache @ 8:44 pm

What about using idioms and programming conventions as signals to achieve more readability and expressiveness? This is what Reg Braithwaite advocates for, suggesting that syntax or even paradigm choices can be a means to communicate the intent.

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February 9, 2008

Scalability: Dynamic and Static Programming Languages

Filed under: Architecture, Refactoring — Sadache @ 1:28 am

In the wake of the demise of Chandler personal information management project, a discussion has occurred on TSS about the scalability potential of dynamic languages. Ted Neward attempted to go beyond language quarrel in order to provide some structured insights on this issue.  

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