It's online now! Our Tapestry 5 Article on InfoQ!

Hi!

Today it happened! At last! Our (my self and Igor Drobiazko) article "Tapestry for Nonbelievers" is published on InfoQ!

Check it here: http://www.infoq.com/articles/tapestry5-intro

The article was written quite a while ago. We've got allot of help and support from Howard. We really appreciate his help and without him this article would be much less that it is now.

Then we tried to publish it first on TSS . It was reviewed and accepted and then... nothing. For more than 6 weeks, just nothing, and our emails were ignored :( so, too bad we thought, therefore... 

We sent article to InfoQ there it was also reviewed and accepted, and .... after some time, it's eventually online. 

In the end it was very good experience in writing articles (it wasn't my first article though). We really enjoyed working on it. And off course we hope that with our small contribution more people will see how Web application can be constructed nowadays.

P.S. We are now preparing a talk for our local Java User Group. You can guess what the topic will be :)

At last

After so many days. It's there.

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!

LDD - Language driven development

The ideas of MDA (Model Driven Architectures) seems to be very promicing to me. The ideas materialized after I explored EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) and we started using it in our development. Another topic that was interesting for me is DSL (domain specific languages), I had posted about it already before. Today I found a very nice approach that merges these two different ideas into one - XMF. 

It seems to be very interesting approach where AFAIK language itself is a matter to change depending on the domain we are working in, and we could represent language construct (AST or similar) as a modeling object. 

Having that in place we could automate transformation between different languages and have the full traceability between different artifacts. It's only my first impressions. Guys from Ceteva coined (?) a new term - Language Driven Development. I'm eagerly reading the paper from them.