Office 2.0 conference. Just a reminder, the early bird registration period for the Office 2.0 Conference ends tomorrow, September 1st. Check out the lineup of presenters, make up your mind, you have a few hours to get the discount.
Anything important, is worth repeating. “The AganeAndAgane programming language is a high-level dynamic strongly-typed almost-functional programming language that borrows ideas from Java, Python and Ruby. It is based on an alternative philosophy of “DRYDBERIOK”, or “Don’t Repeat Yourself Differently, But Exact Repetition Is OK”
As are the mistakes of the past. David Chappell talks about the sad reality of SOA: “the “reuse” concept didn’t work too well with object-oriented programming, and isn’t working too well with SOA, either.” It didn’t work well with functions and modules before that. Fundamentally, because “companies need a corporate culture conducive to the sharing of innovation across departments … How many companies are fortunate enough to have such visionary management and corporate culture?” So just a reminder, you can do great things with SOA, and you can dump a lot of money on brand new software, the two are not neccessarily the same.
Frameworks help, but don’t solve. “When the hype-masters claim that their frameworks and languages make coding an application easier, they are absolutely right. But that’s already the easy part.”
Adopt-a-code. Instead of re-inventing the wheel but with your own preference for indenting and line breaks, why not adopt an orphaned project and build on what others have started?