Archive of Work/Life
Javascript Interfaces: Putting The Java back into Javascript
Object-oriented is mostly about encapsulation, but it’s also about interfaces and inheritance. However, years of experience have caused most programmers to realize that class inheritance is mostly a bad idea; it breaks encapsulation while increasing cognitive load by introducing cryptic indirection. This is why you’ll often hear the sage advice…
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BladeRunner at SkillsMatter
Who Patrick Myles, Emin Tatosian What BladeRunner: A Framework for Building Modular Enterprise-Scale HTML5 Apps Where The Skills Matter eXchange, London When 23rd October 2012, 6:30pm Cost Free Registration Please click here to register HTML5 is quickly emerging as the world’s favourite GUI technology. This is no surprise as HTML5…
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Velocity Day 3
And just like that Velocity Europe 2012 comes to an end. And I am completely exhausted. By the end of day 1 my mind was 80% full. By mid way through the opening plenary on the second day it was 100%. Now that it is all over I am going…
Read MoreVelocity Day 2
Wow, so Day 2 of Velocity has just finished and I can’t help but feel that I went to all the wrong talks. This is meant as a compliment, I can’t believe the amount of talent going on at this conference and it is physically painful having to choose which…
Read MoreVelocity Day 1
So the first day of Velocity London 2012 has drawn to an end. And what a day it was. Lots of cool talks, interesting people and plenty of food for thought. Monitoring and Observability Slides I started the day with Monitoring and Observability by @postwait. The talk went over…
Read MoreLooking ahead to Velocity Day 2
Day 2 of Velocity has just started. After an exhilarating day of tutorials yesterday, we are about to start our first day of talks and we are all going to have to make some hard choice on which of the awesome talks we go to. As usual, we are having a mix of…
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Story Maps and SpecLog (Story Maps part 3)
Story maps were an often mentioned conceptual tool at the Agile and BDD one day mini conference of 7 sessions in one location. See skillsmatter for the program and podcasts of the sessions.There were some great talks covering topics from business analysis through TDD to why developers and testers are…
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What do developers keep in their toolbox?
I just discovered a website called bestvendor.com that let’s you find the ‘best’ work apps based on the recommendations and experience of your peers (or at least your peers that have been on bestvendor.com) I like these crowdsourced comparison tools for finding consensus on best choices, another good one is…
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