links for 2010-12-21

Software Engineering Doesn't work – Glenn Vanderburg "What then, does real software engineering look like? How can we consistently deliver high-quality systems to our customers and employers in a timely fashion and for a reasonable cost? In this talk, we'll discuss where software engineering went wrong, and build the case that disciplined Agile methods, far … [Read more…]

links for 2010-12-02

GeoScript — Multi-language geometry library Not sure exactly what I'm going to do with this, but it seems cool. Now with plotting. (tags: api development geometry java python jython javascript scala groovy graphics) Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD This looks really useful. Speeds page loading AND adds cool cross-browser functionality. (tags: … [Read more…]

links for 2010-11-20

SQLiteJDBC – Xerial – Trac Java "wrapper" around SQLite. Also includes native binary libraries for Win, Mac, Linux x86, plus a pure-java implementation for fallback (e.g. sparc). Still not convinced that SQLite is the way to go, but lots of things seem to use it… (tags: database java jdbc library sqlite) weka – Text categorization … [Read more…]

links for 2010-10-18

Vaadin Web App Dev Framwork – thinking of U and I – vaadin.com YAWF – Yet another web framework. Might be worth looking into for quick development of AJAX apps. (tags: webdev application development software java ajax gwt framework)

links for 2010-09-28

CQRS: Command and Query Responsibility Segregation – Rinat Abdullin An interesting design pattern: reads are synchronous and hit a read-only, read-optimized database. Writes are asynchronous. Writes are "published" to the read-only query database as part of the process of handling the Write request. (tags: enterprise architecture database development pattern soa cqrs blog data software practice … [Read more…]