Some people advocate their preferred language as the only way to enlightenment and productivity boosts way in the two digit percentage range compared to another language in the same category. I don’t believe it. (It’s probably true when you compare things like Java and Assembler, but few do that) There are others that tell 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. [...]
The last months have been extremely busy. Three different projects causing lots of work and sometimes worries, three different conferences I attended as a speaker and various talks at the local JUG. This made it hard to actually think about what I want to do next year. Now all the busy stuff is over (although [...]
