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March 28, 2008

Insights: You don’t need your DSL to be English-like

Filed under: Agile Programming, Domain Driven Design, DSL, Useability — Sadache @ 7:49 pm

There is a widespread opinion that a good DSL has to be English-like. Dave Thomas advocates against such approach asserting that DSL are not about getting as close as possible to natural languages and that having this as a guiding principle of DSL design can be rather detrimental. He also highlights what he believes is important in DSL design and provides some examples of successful DSL.

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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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December 15, 2007

Can architecture create gap between developers and software they build?

Filed under: Architecture, Delivering Value, Agile in the Enterprise, Useability — Sadache @ 12:17 am

Today, many software project management and architecture approaches tend to parcel out  work on a project creating hierarchical layers. This helps to simplify both developers work and management. However, the undelying information shielding among layers can  potentially create a gap between developers and the software they are working on, if developers task are totally taken out of functional context.

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October 11, 2007

Religion driven industry: buzzwords and checklists vs. thinking and inspection

Filed under: Architecture, Agile Programming, Conferences, JAOO, Delivering Value, Methodologies, Agile in the Enterprise, Useability — Sadache @ 5:23 pm

This post has been originally posted on infoQ on Religion driven industry: buzzwords and checklists vs. thinking and inspection

James O. Coplien has recently argued that today’s industry is based on buzzwords and checklists. The use of some techniques and methodologies, TDD for instance, has become “a religious issue”. This prevents from inspecting possible tradeoffs and focusing on finding solutions that would be the most appropriate and the most cost-effective . (more…)

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