Loose Thoughts
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Loose Thoughts
Talks I attended at this year conference were focused on Agile, functional programming and low level performance. It turned out to be quite an interesting mix. Marry Poppendieck talked about ways of supporting continuous design. One of the advices was to create an environment that facilities fair fights. To achieve this you need to hire good, diverse people. Their diversity let them solve complex problems because they can approach them from multiple angles. Once you have a team like that leave them alone and simply keep supporting them. I haven’t learnt much new at Agile Architecture workshop delivered...
It doesn’t happen often that nearly every single talk at a conference is great and on top of that half of them are actually funny. That’s YOW 2010 for you summarized in one sentence :). Justin Sheehy explained how to quickly narrow down the choice of database technologies that might be useful in a particular case. His method is based on a simple matrix of operations requirement (local, single server, distributed, etc) by data model (relational, column families, key/value, etc). Once this is done and there are only a few solutions on the table a more sophisticated and time...
I’ve been trying to finish that book for quite some time. It was difficult :) because it is a book that you can read chapter by chapter without losing the plot and hence it’s easy to abandon it every now and then. Anyway, I managed to finish it this week and I have to say that I haven’t really learnt anything new. This doesn’t mean that it was a waste of time. On the contrary, after reading it I’m more confident that what I’ve been doing is right and I’m not some kind of weirdo that demands the impossible :)....