Category Archives: Software

“ROA – Resume Oriented Architecture” (from an internal source…)

I may well have the messiest desk in this building, my tie is on crooked, and my beard is generally fairly untidy. However I have a perverse compulsion to keep my source code neat and tidy – in particular I … Continue reading →

I was perusing the source generated from a psuedo-’MDA’ tool that is in heavy use at my new workplace. For every domain class the tool generates a dumb structure class or ‘bean’ with setters and getters, plus numerous translators to/from … Continue reading →

Extreme Programming – Uncyclopedia Extreme Programming emphasises the importance of moving people around, often at speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour. This speed is known as the “Project Velocity”. Brilliant.

One thing I’ve inherited in my new work place is a coding standard that requires the “Impl” suffix for every interface implementation. I feel very dirty and ashamed. I’ve long held a very strong point of view here – that … Continue reading →

It’s been a funny couple of months. Since the start of 2004 I was working on a large content management and publishing system for a large Australian company. On this project we had some great people and mostly very interesting … Continue reading →