Clik here to view.
Why Rack should matter to .NET developers
There’s been a lot of talk in the .NET community about Sinatra clones, namely Nancy and Nina in recent times but there are several others as well. Unfortunately, all these frameworks are missing the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cross-site XMLHttpRequest with CORS
Cross-site XMLHttpRequest with CORS: I was working on a personal project over the Christmas period and wanted to make cross-site requests from an AJAX client to an API.As the client and the API were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nero - Me And You I love this track and I noticed they’ve...
Nero - Me And YouI love this track and I noticed they’ve made a Tron inspired video for it!
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pragmatic web service design
Web services are a crucial part of most solutions nowadays, I spend a significant portion of my time designing and writing them and I have read a lot about them to make them better, faster and more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
GiveCamp UK
This morning I signed up for GiveCamp UK. It is an event taking place this October in London where people involved in the software industry are donating a weekend of their free time to help charities...
View ArticleClik here to view.
"There’s a whole school of thought that quantity of features is directly...
“There’s a whole school of thought that quantity of features is directly proportional to what you can charge for software. While clearly this is true in practice, that doesn’t mean that it’s not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Most Important Code Isn't Code
The Most Important Code Isn't Code: I cannot stress how much I agree with this. I’ve come to exactly the same conclusions as Zach in the last year myself. I wish I had written this post myself!Here are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LMAX architecture - Martin Fowler
LMAX architecture - Martin Fowler: I remember watching one of the original presentations on this architecture a few months ago (no idea why I didn’t link to it at the time) and Martin’s article puts it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Finagle
Finagle: I came across Finagle a few weeks ago, it’s:… a protocol-agnostic, asynchronous RPC system for the JVM that makes it easy to build robust clients and servers in Java, Scala, or any JVM-hosted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Resources For, And How I Learnt Backbone.js
Resources For, And How I Learnt Backbone.js: I was going to compile a similar list of resources for my upcoming talk on backbone.js at DDD North but Derick Bailey beat me to it. Check it out.
View ArticleClik here to view.
DDD North - Introduction to Backbone.js
Yesterday, I gave a presentation on Backbone.js at the inaugural DDD North. My thanks go out to Andrew Westgarth and his team for organising it, it was a great event.I was a bit nervous as it was my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gain Trust and Create Change - LDNUG
I’m doing a talk at Skills Matter on 30th January titled “Gain Trust and Create Change” for the London .NET user group.Registration has opened so reserve yourself a place.If you run a user group and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Heroku in Europe
I tweeted yesterday (25th Jan 2012) to ask if anyone knew of a solution as convenient as Heroku but based in the UK or Europe.The reason I asked was at Zopa we are thinking of migrating our front-end...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gain Trust and Create Change - LDNUG - Followup
Last Monday I gave my talk “Gain Trust and Create Change” for the first time at the London .NET user group. The guys at Skills Matterrecorded the whole thing so you can watch it online if you missed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Software Has in Common with Schrödinger’s Cat
What Software Has in Common with Schrödinger’s Cat: An interesting article exploring the relationship between quantum physics and continuous delivery.None of it is real until it is in the hands of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
"Also, versioning APIs sucks. It’s not that it’s hard, it’s that once you...
“Also, versioning APIs sucks. It’s not that it’s hard, it’s that once you publish an API, you pretty much have to support it forever. This is especially true when your API is being consumed through...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DDD10 - 10 Practices Summary
I had the pleasure of presenting at DDD10 last weekend. Among some of the more interesting feedback were some requests for some links and an overview of the things mentioned in my talk.A few people...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Boy Scout Rule
My friend Dom “Knave of Nottingham” Finn’s wrote a post To Fix Or Not To Fix. This is something I’ve thought about quite a lot as, lets be honest, everyone is maintaining a legacy codebase to some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
"Usually—almost always—there’s a much simpler solution waiting to be...
“Usually—almost always—there’s a much simpler solution waiting to be discovered, one that doesn’t involve all the architectural noise, convolutions of the straightforward, and misguided emphasis on...
View Article
