SDLC Blog

links for 2007-05-31

• People Over Process » Blog Archive » Mik Kersten and I talk about IDE Extensions and Smalltalk’s influence on Eclipse
  RedMonkTV: "talk with Mylar’s Mik Kersten about writing Java IDE extensions and my curiosity about how much influence Smalltalk has had on the Eclipse world"
  (tags: IDE eclipse smalltalk video interview redmonk)
• People Over Process » Blog Archive » Interface21 Video from JavaOne
  RedMonkTV: "talk about new features in Spring, what Interface21 provides it’s customers, and the Rod’s thoughts on the future of Java middleware."
  (tags: springframework architecture middleware video interview redmonk)
• InfoQ: Is REST Winning?
  (tags: development java rest SOAP)
• Eclipse-Games Main Page
  (tags: eclipse game)

links for 2007-05-30

• The Uses of Code Search
  JavaOne 2007 interview: how code search can help with impact analysis of a code change that you are considering doing, and to what extent code search can be used to facilitate code reuse inside an organization.
  (tags: software development code-search interview impact-analysis)
• Spring 2.1: TheServerSide Video Interview Part I
  Rod talks to us about Spring 2.1, Spring Web Flow, and Spring Batch in part I of this interview
  (tags: springframework architecture interview)
• YUI Theater — Grady Booch: “The Promise, the Limits, the Beauty of Software” » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
  Video of Grady Booch’s lecture at Yahoo!
  (tags: software development architecture video)
• The Jazz Guide to Rational Software Development Conference 2007
  Argghhh! I’m going to miss this event this year.
  (tags: IBM Rational Jazz)
• RSD2007: CP15 – It’s Jazz for IBM(R) System z(TM) and System i(TM)
  The Jazz platform is able to target IBM(R) System z/i(TM), Windows(TM), and UNIX(R) systems. The Jazz platform also provides dedicated functions in order to support the specific characteristics of these platforms and their development processes. This pres
  (tags: IBM Rational Jazz mainframe)
• Six ways to write more comprehensible code
  These six tips on how to write maintainable code are guaranteed to save you time and frustration: one minute spent writing comments can save you an hour of anguish.
  (tags: programming coding tips)
• IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: PHP for z/OS feature page
  (tags: IBM z/OS php)

Innovative Recruitement

A great example of an innovative recruitment marketing campaign: identify smart bloggers and send them a truly creative personalized request.

Here is the story from one of the recipients and here the official story from Red5 Studio’s perspective.

I do not consider myself a smart blogger, but I would accept with pleasure this kind of job offers 🙂

links for 2007-05-25

• EclipseZone – RMBench Relational Modeller 1.0.4 …
  Eclipse based low-cost tool for modelling relational databases. It supports Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Derby
  (tags: eclipse development relational database)
• IBM looks to open up development – vnunet.com
  “My stress is not so much on the licensing, but on how we conduct ourselves. It is more about the social side of software development”. Cuomo is planning to publish the source code control system of software projects and encourage lead engineers to start
  (tags: IBM Websphere software development open social)
• 10 Eclipse Navigation Shortcuts Every Java Programmer Should Know « The Curious Schemer
  (tags: Eclipse ide tips shortcuts)
• Eclipse-Tools Project – Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts
  Shortcuts are available for Eclipse 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1
  (tags: eclipse IDE shortcuts tips)
• InfoQ: Starting Struts 2
  Courtesy of Ian Roughley and InfoQ.com, we’re happy to offer a free version for download, to get this knowledge in as many peoples hands as possible.
  (tags: java j2ee struts books)
• EclipseZone – Tools are Evil …
  (tags: software development tools IDE)
• InfoQ: If Agile is So Good, Why Isn’t Everyone Doing It?
  Misapprehensions about agile still run rampant in IT organizations. Eugene Nizker, a former financial services CIO and current consultant, ticks off the most infamous ones: Agile teams do not plan. Agile teams skip design. Agile teams do not test. Agile m
  (tags: software development methodology agile)
• MyEclipse Blog : Eclipse Issues, Java Trends, Open Source
  with the unique business model of Genuitec and the bottom-up approach to sales, the adoption rate of MyEclipse has skyrocketed.
  (tags: software development eclipse IDE)

links for 2007-05-23

• Regenerative Build Tools
  They created a script that went into their code and commented out a single #include. Then it built their project. If the build and the tests passed, the script deleted the include. If it didn’t, the script uncommented the include and went on to the next o
  (tags: ci build software)
• Alistair Cockburn Q&A: Are you really doing agile?
  he talks about how the term agile has become overused and has begun to lose meaning. People say they’re using agile techniques, but they’re actually doing “hacking and slashing” — what he calls “lost in the woods programming.”
  (tags: agile development software)
• Interface21 Team Blog » Spring Web Flow Java One 2007 Demo
  building out a search flow from the ground up for deployment in a Java Server Faces (JSF) environment
  (tags: Spring webflow podcast)
• Take a sneak peek at IBM Rational’s Jazz collaborative ALM framework and community – FindTech Blogs
  in-depth interview on Jazz with Scott Hebner, the vice president for marketing and strategy for IBM Rational Software,
  (tags: ibm rational jazz interview)
• IBM developerWorks : developerWorks community topics
  developerWorks community topics are the first phase of developerWorks spaces and allow innovators in our worldwide community of five million members to create micro-sites focused on a specific technical subject, software project, development activity, or
  (tags: IBM shared development community)
• Re: How to Design (Declarative) Programming Languages
  Here are some questions a prospective language designer should ask himself when starting the designing a programming language.
  (tags: development programming languages DSL)
• ActiveState – Whitepapers, ActiveState Dynamic Languages – Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages
  (tags: programming dynamic languages)
• DB2 Magazine Wiki
  tips and tricks for working with DB2, Informix, U2, Cloudscape, and related tools and solutions
  (tags: ibm db2 wiki)