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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Agile architecture?

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Slightly appropriate to yesterday’s Agile is Dead rant – because certain vendors are now out and about flogging that “SOA is Agile” in the most incredibly facile way – here’s an interesting short read about the structural aspects (as opposed to the process-orientated aspects) of agile architecture by Kirk Knoernschild. The problem remains for the [...]

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Agile is dead

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

I know that’s a pretty bold statement but here’s why. This morning I went to a vendor’s presentation morning, it was the usual game of buzzword bingo from the very first slide on. All the usual enterprise2.0, social-networking, portal-compliant, content-management, vertically-integrated, SOA-BPM-UCM-JEE-ESB-WS-BPEL platform-framework-enabling scalability-enhancing fun-lovin’ don’t write code but manage-the-enterprise-blog-wiki-twitter-facebook-youtube shopping cart drag-n-drop non-content that [...]

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To do redux

Sunday, June 7, 2009

I just want to answer the anonymous “process nazis” trackback on yesterday’s ‘//TODO’ Considered Harmful post, because that blog desn’t allow comments without a login. Quite apart from issues with Godwin’s Law (and that the writer has enumerated a bunch of rules that get “violated” then accuses other people of being process nazis), the post [...]

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‘//TODO’ considered harmful

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Yesterday I said that developers should start being a little more militant about the craftsmanship of their code, i.e. pushing back on broken methodology that demands poorly-built code  be released into the wild. This sort of code is always inherently fragile and will break your software if it has not already. Today I just want [...]

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Just Say No (to broken processes)

Friday, June 5, 2009

Broken development processes lead to broken code. When you find badly formed code, and especially if you didn’t  write it just then in order to make the test pass just a minute ago, and super-especially is the code is already in production, you not only need to rectify the code, you need to rectify the [...]

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