Ebay + Eclipse

Very nice article about Ebay and Eclipse :) they seems to be not very well fit together, but just read this

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-eclipse-ebay1/index.html

Idea

Downloading idea. Eager to try it :)

Yet another driver for development - Domain

I was on the interview in a small company here in Dusseldorf recently. Interview went ok, allthough I didn't really liked the way the company is doing their development because they are definitely struggling with handover problems and heavy over-engineering.

However person on the interview mentioned that they want to start using Behaviour Driven Development (he also mentioned allot of other staff they *want* to do, but that's usual in SW development IMHO, just check the open position requirements on monster.com :) ).

So I heard buzzword BDD before but weren't really in the topic, so I decided to have a look.

So, I found following sentence:

"It brings together strands from TestDrivenDevelopment and DomainDrivenDesign into an integrated whole, making the relationship between these two powerful approaches to software development more evident."

What stands behind TDD buzzword was clear for me, however DDD weren't, so I found a nice book on InfoQ about it. What's interesting is that one of the authors of the book is a founder of InfoQ, and this PDF is basically a short summary of another book. Wherever, I started reading.

What was really interesting inside the book, authors are definitely aware about the common trends in SW industry, such as Waterfall-Agile transformation, so one citate from the book:

"continuous refactoring done by developers without solid design principles will produce code that  is hard to understand or change. And while the waterfall approach may lead to over-engineering, the fear of over-engineering may lead to another fear: the fear of doing a deep, thoroughly thought out design. "

Nice. Fear of though design, a kind of design-fobia. It reminds me a long discussion about evolutionary design which will never be really complete, since it's too much subjective feelings and experience stands behind. 

+1 to Safari

You might haven't noticed that, but new Safari 3.1 is out (!). Safari is my favorite web browser because 

• It has the best supports of most of the web standards (check Acid 2 test in your browser) so I can see the WEB the way it shall looks like. No Firefox can do that so far :). Microsoft IE team is trying to do that, but as soon as they did, nothing else works in IE :)
  
• It's damn fast, and version 3.1 is even faster!
• It renders fonts correct way. The way they should be rendered with subpixel rendering. Check Joel blog on that. (through all applicaitons on Mac do that, Firefox also, but not on Windows)
• It has a very nice features build in (check codinghorror and macrumors)
• It works very nicely on my Mac :) and on Windows :)

It's really a nice browser and unless there were a SafariBug (similar to FireBug) I would deinstall the Firefox the same minute. Migrate!