Stefan Tilkov's Random StuffThoughts on Architecture, REST and SOA, Model-Driven Development, and whatever else crosses my pathInterviewing Mark Little- June 24, 2008 In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web services and...http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/interviewing_mark_little.html Webifying Integrated Development Environments- June 24, 2008 Henry Story: IDEs should be browsers of code on a Read Write Web. A whole revolution in how to build code editors is I believe hidden in those words. So let&8217;s imagine it. Fiction anticipates reality. &8230; If you want...http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/webifying_integrated_developme.html Niclas Nilsson on Scala and Erlang- June 24, 2008 This kind of post is why I believe InfoQ is great. Kudos Niclas!...http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/niclas_nilsson_on_scala_and_er.html Fan- June 23, 2008 Tim Bray is right: Fan definitely looks like an interesting language....http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/fan.html Ruby: DSL for Writing Programs- June 15, 2008 Hugh Winkler: S-expressions give Lisp powerful ways to build code in code. But writing programs using S-expressions seems cumbersome compared to Ruby's syntax. The syntax of Ruby shortens the code you have to write to do everyday tasks. It's like...http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/ruby_dsl_for_writing_programs.html Objective-C 2.0 Garbage Collection- June 13, 2008 Doug Purdy: Even more important (and far cooler in this world of a new framework every 10 minutes), is that Objective-CNeXTStepOpenStepCocoa has been around since the late 1980s and just getting better with age...http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/objectivec_20_garbage_collecti.html REST Interview- June 11, 2008 When I first linked to the podcast Markus Vlter did with me a while back, I hadn&8217;t actually listened to it. Now I&8217;ve done that (unsure what this says about my ego), I&8217;ll note that Markus actually managed to extracted...http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/rest_interview.html BusinessIT Alignment A Fallacy- June 10, 2008 Interesting viewpoint by Julian Browne in a comment on InfoQ: Discussions about alignment are a by-product of the FUD put around by consultancies as the big enterprise integration initiatives of the nineties went off the rails. They created this mental...http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/businessit_alignment_a_fallacy.html Jonathan Weiss on Rails Patterns- June 10, 2008 These are my unedited notes from Jonathan Weiss's talk "Rails Patterns". Knowledge gained in large-scale Rails projects Typical issues: mdeia conversion, user data, lots of plugins, external dependencies, slow requests LOVDbyLESS example Using Stephen Bristol's LOVDbyLESS as an example Pattern...http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/jonathan_weiss_on_rails_patter.html Jens Krmer: Experience with JRuby on Rails- June 10, 2008 These are my live notes from Jens Krmer's talk on JRuby on Rails at Rails-Konferenz 2008. Not talking about ferret and full text search for a change :-) Germany's 1st JRuby on Rails project, started in Dec 2007 JRuby 1.8.6...http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/06/jens_kramer_experience_with_jr.html |