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Agile Anti-Patterns - We Know Absolutely Nothing · 19/02/2007 by Lance Walton
One of the premises of Agile Methods is that much of the knowledge gained from a project is specific to that project and team, and therefore does not necessarily apply to other projects and teams. This article examines a pernicious over-generalisation of this, that is unfortunately often presented as superior thinking.
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Eclipse Java Editor Settings · 17/02/2007 by Channing Walton
There are some settings in the Java Editor that are not turned on by default which I find very useful …
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Anti-Social Enumerations · 14/02/2007 by Lance Walton
Enumerated types that encapsulate no behaviour at all are sometimes, very rarely, useful. Usually, they are simply not taught how to behave and are therefore lazy and anti-social.
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Domain Specific Language Nonsense · 28/01/2007 by Lance Walton
Much of the pop-literature about DSLs has a single concern, which is how to make code look more like natural English and is uninterested in those things that make languages more or less useful.
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InquisitorX · 23/12/2006 by Channing Walton
Inquisitor… it’s like Spotlight for the web.
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Bwana · 17/12/2006 by Channing Walton
Bwana lets you read man pages directly in your browser.
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Object Evisceration · 24/11/2006 by Lance Walton
A tail of two dogs.
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Twisty VIM Eclipse · 08/11/2006 by Channing Walton
Are you thinking of a VI editor in Eclipse … ?
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My Brain · 05/11/2006 by Channing Walton
Here are some pictures of my brain …
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How do we tell truths that might hurt? · 29/10/2006 by Channing Walton
Edsger W.Dijkstra wrote an interesting letter in June 1975 hoping to bring some honesty in to the field of computer science. I don’t think we heeded his concerns.
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