When stuck with a legacy code base you’ll hear the claim “We’ll have to rewrite this from scratch in order to fix it!” It sounds promising. You start with a clean slate. You can do all the good stuff without all the mistakes. The only problem: It doesn’t work. Here is why. What every you [...]
A late comparision of Ruby on Rails with Open Xava demonstrates that you can develop Java based applications fast. This lead another blogger to the conclusiong that java developers do love complicated architectures. I think this view ia a little to simplistic. Java developers like fast results and progress just as all the other developers. [...]
My son Finn is 6 and as pretty much every kid of that age he is wondering “What the heck is daddy doing all day”. Therefore I was wondering for some time how I could teach him a little programming. I first considered Alice or to be more precise Alice Storytelling. Unfortunately it wasn’t working [...]