Kent Beck Cringing

“I cringe when I read it now.” (1st edition of Extreme Programming Explained)

“You can’t make XP work somewhere.”

– Kent Beck

Listening to an interview with Kent Beck on Team Agile I got a much better understanding of how his ideas of changed. XP has become more a set of good practices and [...]

Current Java Web Framework Options

Listening to a podcast by Tim Shadel on difficulties with JSF and why he wouldn’t use it again brought up a current headache in the java web development space. Today’s options for java web frameworks blow.

Let me expound a bit:

Struts – Works fine, has been the defacto standard for years, but its showing [...]

JSF Compared to a 7 Layer Burritto

Tim Shadel has a post entitled, JSF: The 7-Layer Burrito I Won’t Eat Again, and podcast on his experience with JSF. I’m guessing the 7 layer burrito comment refers to the 6 lifecycle phases in JSF. Anyway I’m eagerly awaiting to get to this podcast on my iTunes playlist. Tim’s vote on JSF after his [...]

Leave Out Long Podcast Lead Ins

Listening to episode #16 of Code Sermon this week the, the host made an editorial comment about a trend in podcasts having a couple of minutes audio intro.

It seems like filler and I don’t think we need filler in this new medium.

I’ll have to second this. The point of podcasts is [...]

PHP to Ruby/Python Migration

I’m making my way through the Snakes and Rubies presentations of Django and Rails. One thing that surprised me a bit was that both Adrian Holovaty and David Heinemeier Hansson both came out of a PHP web development background. Within these presentations both explain that PHP was so messy that they developed their frameworks in [...]

Management Podcasts

I listen to three regular weekly management podcasts:

Manager Tools The Cranky Middle Manager The Middle Management Lobotomy

Manager Tools is just great. It is easily the best management podcast I’ve come across so far. The two hosts, Mark and Mike, are good friends who have been managing for many years. Mark is a management [...]