Pickaxe 2
Looks like gonna have a Ruby weekend! After the Don Box post, I had the joy of receiving my Pickaxe 2 book at home!
A really great book nicely balanced between tutorial and reference material. I used to read the Ruby documentation online, but the paper based version really worth the (low) price.
The future of Java and others: Don Box?s point of view
Don Box just posted a quite courageous point of view about the potential evolution of computer languages. I see nothing more to say than I fully agree with him. I am currently exactly in the same position as him: learning SmallTalk and Ruby, (re)discovering object orientation, and pleasure of programming.Moreover, the comments are quite interesting. […]
La programmation objet n?est pas un ?chec
Depuis quelques jours, les communaut?s Java et .net s??meuvent autour d?un article pol?mique attaquant la pertinence de l?approche objet, pr?n?e depuis plus de 30 ans par les chercheurs, et mis en ?uvre concr?tement depuis une dizaine d?ann?es dans les applications de gestion. Certains en arrivent m?me ? la conclusion que l?objet n?est adapt? qu?aux probl?mes […]
The future of Java
I just discovered the excellent Groovy language leaded by Guillaume Laforge which has a quite clear introduction of its objectives:
Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java 2 Platform that has many of the features that people like so much in languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk, making them available to Java developers using […]
Architecture agile II
J?avais r?cemment exprim? sur cette tribune mon point de vue sur le r?le primordial de l?architecture dans le cadre d?une d?marche de projet agile (ou it?rative). Martin Fowler nous livre ses propres retours d?exp?rience et il aboutit ? la m?me conclusion.Par ailleurs, je crois qu?il est utile de rappeler ce que nous entendons sous le […]
Doug Engelbart 1968 demo
Following the Alan Kay?s interview, I looked for the mentioned Doug Engelbart 1968 demo. Here it is. Amazing to see on this ?twilight zone? video the guy demoing things such as mouse, word processor, hyperlinks, video conferencing, etc? You really can measure how computer science has been “pop culture” since those pioneering times.
Alan Kay interview: a must read!
LtU pointed a very, very, very nice interview of Alan Kay in ACM Queue. I wanted to give you some extract, but actually, every paragraph worth a citation.Anyway, I extract this one for you:
SF So Smalltalk is to Shakespeare as Excel is to car crashes in the TV culture?AK No, if you look at it […]
Ruby versus the rest of the world
Avi Bryant did a comparison between Ruby, Python and Smalltalk (of course). A mandatory reading if you want to understand the fondamental differences between langages.He started from the famous ?Ten Things a Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby?. One of those things is: ?Don’t worry about early performance optimization?Well, as it has been commented on […]
Dojo
Learning by doing
Christophe Thibaut made a very nice description of the Dojo.Of course, the Dojo is all about learning and improving our skills at programming computers. For me, it links directly to the XP approach for software project management. I really feel that XP allows you to learn the domain of your application, and improve your skill […]
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