Monthly Archives: November 2008

I have been hearing really good things about Mate for a few months now.  I have been rebelling against dragging additional frameworks into Flex just for MVC for a while now (Flex and MVC /  Cairngorm).  I finally got a chance to spend some time coding with Mate on a flight back from San Fransico [...] Continue reading →

Chet Haase, an engineer on the Adobe Flex Platform Team, shared a few thoughts this week on how JavaFX and Adobe Flex compare.  Chet brings a unique perspective, as he was a member of Sun’s JavaFX team before joining Abobe.  You can read his comments in my InfoQ post.
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I was chatting at the office last week about code quality, and thought I would jot down some of the things we talked about.  I think it is fair to say that it is difficult to know when code is “good” and when it is “bad.”  There are of course obvious times when the coder [...] Continue reading →

Corner-Case-Driven-Development is an exciting version of development where all extreme corner cases are highlighted each step of the way.  It is especially important to interject a corner-case once someone starts to talk about the fundamental features of the system, as getting distracted by the core things, like what a user wants to accomplish, is a [...] Continue reading →

I am listening to the latest Java Posse podcast, a session from this years round-up titled, Don’t Repeat Yourself. In the discussion, Tor Norbye made the statement that, “programming is all trade-offs.”  This is a great point.  For what ever my strengths and weaknesses are as a developer, I have long believed that one of [...] Continue reading →

Well, I have been pushing him to get in the Blogging game for a while, as he brings a unique take to all things software.  He is our CEO that codes.  I don’t know what that says for his CEO skills, but for us developers it makes for a great boss.  Anyhow, here is the [...] Continue reading →