Exploring Extreme Programming
Domain-Driven Design, by Eric Evans. Addison Wesley, 2004. Evans has developed a pattern language that focuses on how thinking about our domain needs to be of primary importance in developing software. This understanding should show up consistently in how customers Continue reading Review – Domain-Driven Design
“Amazing” is a maze generation program from the book BASIC Computer Games, by David Ahl. (The maze program was created by Jack Hauber). The code is used with permission of David Ahl, www.SwapMeetDave.com. Alan Hensel mentioned using this program as inspiration for Continue reading Refactoring Challenge – The Amazing Maze
OOPSLA ’03 Trip report. Continue reading OOPSLA ’03 Trip Report
Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catalogue of Modern Software Engineering Paradigms, Peter DeGrace and Leslie Hulet Stahl, Prentice-Hall, 1990. This book is a critique of the waterfall model, and a description of a number of alternative models. It has an Continue reading Review – Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions
Los programadores extremos escriben pruebas antes de escribir el código de producción correspondiente. En “La programación de Probar Primero”, se empieza con una pequeña prueba, luego se escribe únicamente el código necesario para pasarla, y se continúa con la siguiente prueba hasta que el código quede terminado. Continue reading El Semáforo de Probar Primero (The Test-First Stoplight, in Spanish)
NASAGA ’03 Trip Report. Continue reading NASAGA ’03 Trip Report
Is writing software more like manufacturing cookies or more like designing cookie cutters? It’s easy to wish that we could develop software like a factory stamps out cookies, but software has a design or creation element that is missing in that analogy. Lean manufacturing is a different approach than a traditional assembly line, and offers some lessons for software development. Continue reading Lean Manufacturing and Software
Programming in the world of “What If?” Continue reading Subjunctive Programming
Reinventing the Wheel, Jessica Helfand. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. This is a picture book of volvelles, wheel calculators. You typically set a pointer to a particular value, and windows or the edge of the wheel reveal an answer. If you Continue reading Review – Reinventing the Wheel
Origami, Hideaki Sakata. GRAPH-SHA LTD., 1984. This is a beginner’s origami book, but it’s the best beginner’s book I’ve seen. It shows six or seven bases, from which about 40 objects are created. Because the book uses color pictures instead Continue reading Review – Origami