Python v Ruby Celebrity Deathmatch you don't have to go all Paul Graham and try to rationalise or moralise your sense of the beautiful LOL. Wise java programmers see that langage's relative inflexiblity as a feature Yes. This is similar to Fielding's argument about constraints inducing a particular architecture. That said, there's no arguing...

On Chaos in IT the borders of the enterprise are dissolving, and interaction is occurring outside of its walls at an increasing rate. Why adopt an architecture that is inwardly focused, when all results, most opportunities, and threats are on the outside of the legal fiction of the organization? So, I'm talking to a colleague the other day...

On Chaos in IT the borders of the enterprise are dissolving, and interaction is occurring outside of its walls at an increasing rate. Why adopt an architecture that is inwardly focused, when all results, most opportunities, and threats are on the outside of the legal fiction of the organization? So, I'm talking to a colleague the other day...

The Alignment Trap via:mattmcknight Interesting piece from the MIT Sloan Management Review. The idea that "aligning" IT with business goals is not sufficient to be a successful business, save boatloads of money or spur exponential growth, resonates with me. Despite that, I'm more than a little skeptical about the sound-bite sized advice on...

The Alignment Trap via:mattmcknight Interesting piece from the MIT Sloan Management Review. The idea that "aligning" IT with business goals is not sufficient to be a successful business, save boatloads of money or spur exponential growth, resonates with me. Despite that, I'm more than a little skeptical about the sound-bite sized advice on...

Wide Finder, Stacks of Lamps, and Virtualization | VMTN Blog To Build Better Software, You Need Fewer People (But Why?) Wow. Aloof and I seem to have hit a nerve with our conversation about lamps. Both of the responses above (the first from VMware's tech blog, the second from Bob Warfield's (one of "agile"'s founding fathers) Smoothspan blog)...

Wide Finder, Stacks of Lamps, and Virtualization | VMTN Blog To Build Better Software, You Need Fewer People (But Why?) Wow. Aloof and I seem to have hit a nerve with our conversation about lamps. Both of the responses above (the first from VMware's tech blog, the second from Bob Warfield's (one of "agile"'s founding fathers) Smoothspan blog)...

The Board - Editorials - Opinion - New York Times Blog Hey, cool. There's definitely something going on at the Times. There's even an Atom feed. Too bad the Feed Validator doesn't like it: This feed uses an obsolete namespace

The Board - Editorials - Opinion - New York Times Blog Hey, cool. There's definitely something going on at the Times. There's even an Atom feed. Too bad the Feed Validator doesn't like it: This feed uses an obsolete namespace

IDEA does Adobe Flex too So, that did it. The hell with the wife. I'm downloading it. It's not just Ruby and Rails -- it does Flex too, complete with IDEA "intentions" for Flex. Scary.

IDEA does Adobe Flex too So, that did it. The hell with the wife. I'm downloading it. It's not just Ruby and Rails -- it does Flex too, complete with IDEA "intentions" for Flex. Scary.

IntelliJ IDEA version 7 takes on Netbeans with extensive Ruby and Rails features Drool. This has my (almost) undivided attention. I want to play with this toy. Now we need somebody to do an exhaustive comparison of Netbeans vs. IDEA as Ruby tool du jour. Hmmm...

IntelliJ IDEA version 7 takes on Netbeans with extensive Ruby and Rails features Drool. This has my (almost) undivided attention. I want to play with this toy. Now we need somebody to do an exhaustive comparison of Netbeans vs. IDEA as Ruby tool du jour. Hmmm...

A Pile of Lamps Grin. Aloof musing about things that, done badly, give him nightmares. I think we have to be realists -- the nightmare is already upon us, and maybe it's not as bad as all that. Full disclosure: I was one of those wild eyed "client-server" revolutionaries that stormed the ramparts of the Glass House, and ushered in the Age of...

A Pile of Lamps Grin. Aloof musing about things that, done badly, give him nightmares. I think we have to be realists -- the nightmare is already upon us, and maybe it's not as bad as all that. Full disclosure: I was one of those wild eyed "client-server" revolutionaries that stormed the ramparts of the Glass House, and ushered in the Age of...