Monthly Archives: June 2008

Anti agile words: weekly

I don’t like the term weekly.
It sounds fixed, it does not sound agile.
Used in contexts such a weekly meeting: do you really need a meeting every week? I would rather consider to have a meeting as needed, when there’s a real problem, when the benefit is evident.
A weekly status report? Why? Why not pulling the [...]

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TDA, test driven analysis

Recently one of our clients had a big problem on production, having to restart a critical application a couple of times in two days, with few hours of service outage.We have been asked to investigate where the problem was and in order to figure it out we wrote few tests around the legacy application.The finger [...]

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Domain Driven in the financial world (II)

Josh was right on his comment on my previous post about DDD in the financial world: we had a new requirement from the client: design a market simulator.
Basically our market simulator is a tool to parse the production logs, inject them into the application and verify that the behaviour of the application is correct. (A [...]

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Fan Programming Language

I’m just having a look to Fan and it seems quite a cool language, soon more posts on this.
Fan Programming Language: “Portability
Write code portable to both the Java VM and the .NET CLR.
Familiar Syntax
Java and C# programmers will feel at home with Fan’s curly brace syntax.

Concurrency
Tackle concurrency with built-in immutability, message passing, and REST [...]

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