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links for 2008-06-11

• EDC | IDE SURVEY

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    Integrated Development Environments User Satisfaction Survey
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• MyEclipse Blog : J2EE IDE toolkit for AJAX, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, JSP, XML, HTML and more

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    &#8220;Despite perception to the contrary, the application development tools market is getting smaller not larger.&#8221;
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• InfoQ: Article: Scalability Best Practices Lessons from eBay

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    eBay Distinguished Engineer Randy Shoup outlines several of the key best practices they have learned over time to scale the transactional throughput of a web-based system
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• STSC CrossTalk – The Use and Limitations of Static-Analysis Tools to Improve Software Quality – Jun 2008

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    &#8220;The following is a description of how static-analysis tools work, followed by a discussion of how they can be used to complement traditional testing.&#8221;
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• MIS | Magazine > Using the open-source model for IT development

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    &#8220;Following the open source model for collaborative software development can cut costs while providing a basis to create other innovative networks to develop technology specific to your company.&#8221;
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    (tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/opensource">opensource</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/model">model</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/collaboration">collaboration</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/software">software</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/development">development</a>)
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• The shrinking Java tools market | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-06-02 | By Paul Krill

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    &#8220;The rise of open source Java tools &#8212; notably Eclipse &#8212; in fact promoted the consolidation of the Java tools market&#8221;
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• Why Enerjy Tools Are Now Free | Eclipse Zone

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    &#8220;After much thought, we have decided that selling Java development tools is not a viable business model for us&#8221;
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• Cookies are for Closers: Oren Hurvitz’s Blog » LinkedIn Architecture

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    LinkedIn architecture key parts summary
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    (tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/architecture">architecture</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a>)
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• NOOP.NL: Managing Software Development: Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever

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    Awesome list: Top 100 of Best Software Engineering Books
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• Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor | Javalobby

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    &#8220;The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools.&#8221;. Apocalyptic statement. Don&#8217;t agree with that, at least, in the short term.
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• RE: [alf-dev] Is ALF alive?

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    the Eclipse ALF project is dead?
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• The Casablanca Weblog: Building a Developer Community

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    Some guidelines to to build a developer community
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RSDC 2008 Day 1

Exhausted after my first day at RSDC, so just a quick note.

Yesterday, my flight from JFK to MCO was delayed 3 hours and I arrived to Orlando too late. As I had a meeting earlier this morning, I haven’t slept much last night. Anyway, this morning I felt energized. I finally met Kelly and some of the Jazz guys, Bill and Patrick, in our first Blogger/Tweetup at the Dolphin Bar. And I got my very exclusive Rational Suport Moo Card!

Oh, and if you hear some rumors that I’m appearing at the WebSphere Rocks! cover magazine dressed like a guitar hero, it’s not true! Forget it!

Countdown to RSDC 2008

Just a couple of days left before I flight to Orlando for RSDC’08 (IBM Rational Software Development Conference).

Two years ago I attended to this conference as a non-customer, and I was thoroughly impressed. It is always great to hear real customer case studies and to talk to other peers who share the same passion about application development tools. However, this year I am going to attend as a customer. The main difference is that as a customer you can meet some IBM/Rational key figures (and I am not referring to the R-Heroes) and attend to some reserved events. For example, this year I have scheduled some meetings with some Rational PM’s and another one with our Lab Advocate. And I have also been invited to the VoiCE event, where they are going to explain us future products (unfortunately under NDA) and where we can vent all our anger, for example, about how complicated and heavy are some of their tools. Let’s see how great the conference would be this time.

This year I am also specially excited, as I am going to meet some virtual “friends” in real life. People like Bill or Patrick, with whom I have interacted via email, chat, blogs or Twitter. And of course, Kelly, the only one, who after all these years of online interactions she deserves lots of big hugs and kisses (and not only because she set aside for me a VERY limited Rational Support Moo card). And ssshhh, keep a secret, we have both started to set up an open Twitter and Blog meetup at the Disney’s Swan bar, so stay tunned!

If you are going and you are reading this post, shoot me an e-mail at frodenas [at] gmail [dot] com or comment this post. We can swap contact info and figure out how to meet up. If you are not attending and you are interested in knowing what happens during the conference, just follow the #rsdc hastag or search for the rsdc2008 tag.

Comments

Comment by MikeMacD on 2008-05-28 11:08:05 +0000

I’ll be there 🙂

Comment by Ferdy on 2008-05-29 00:52:09 +0000

Hi Mike, I’ll see you there then!

Comment by Bill Grant on 2008-05-30 03:19:13 +0000

I’ll be there too… And Bill Higgins referred to you today, so it seems you are someone I should talk to (which will be easy if there is a twitter meetup).

Comment by Ferdy on 2008-05-30 19:15:00 +0000

Hi Bill, it would be nice to meet you at RSDC. Bill Higgins also told me about you. I’ve prepared some slides about our direction, so no problem to share them with you.

links for 2008-05-22

• Agitar Software winds down operations – SD Times On The Web

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    Bad news &#8230; AgitarOne is a great product, despite its license model
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• LibreSource – LibreSource Community

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    &#8220;LibreSource is an Open Source web portal, gathering in one place all the necessary tools to share and communicate within your project team.&#8221;
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• Why Product Management is Open Source’s Fatal Flaw | Product Beautiful: Building Product Management by Paul Young

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    &#8220;I propose that Product Management should take a more active role in FOSS, not telling the developers what users need, but teamingwith developers to identify the target audience and prioritize the users needs.&#8221;
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• Strategic Objectives and Advantages of Model Driven Development | Eclipse Zone

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    some of the strategic objectives and advantages that Markus Voelter have seen first hand with implementing MDD
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• Airs – Ian Lance Taylor » Layered Programming

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    &#8220;What I wonder is whether we will again cohere to a programming model which can be understood at all relevant layers. Or whether things are just going to get increasingly complicated&#8221;
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    (tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/programming">programming</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/model">model</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/complexity">complexity</a>)
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• CodeCity

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    &#8220;CodeCity is an integrated environment for software analysis, in which software systems are visualized as interactive, navigable 3D cities.&#8221;
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    (tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/analysis">analysis</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/code">code</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/visualization">visualization</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/tools">tools</a>)
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• Ola Bini: Programming Language Synchronicity: A New Hope: Polyglotism

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    &#8220;It&#8217;s interesting, many Java programmers talk so much about tools, but they never seem to think about their language as a tool. For me, the language is what shapes my thinking, and thus it&#8217;s definitely much more important than which editor I&#8217;m using.&#8221;
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links for 2008-05-11

• InfoQ: Interview: Markus Voelter about Software Architecture Documentation

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    &#8220;While he agrees that UML has its benefits, he continues pointing out that we should be using tools which allow us to create a formal model which can be automatically processed and its integrity can be verified.&#8221;
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    (tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/architecture">architecture</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/documentation">documentation</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/UML">UML</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/frodenas/DSM">DSM</a>)
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• InfoQ: The State of Enterprise Architecture

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    &#8220;You can&#8217;t &#8220;influence&#8221; your way to success, you have to have some kind of hammer drop on somebody&#8217;s head if they don&#8217;t follow the core architectural principles…it&#8217;s called governance.&#8221;
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• Borland Finally Dumps CodeGear Tools Division @ ECLIPSE DEVELOPER’S JOURNAL

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    &#8220;It’s only taken Borland two years but it’s finally dumped its CodeGear tools division, responsible for Borland’s hereditary JBuilder, Delphi and C++ Builder lines as well as its new web ventures into PHP and Ruby&#8221;
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• Wide Awake Developers: The JVM is Great, But…

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    &#8220;OSGi is what we should have had since the beginning, instead of having the classpath inflicted on us.&#8221;
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• Open Source Code Review Tools | OStatic

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    web-based open source code review tools
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• InfoQ: Software Development Lessons Learned from Poker

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    &#8220;Average developers know how to do something, experts know why to do something. Average developers follow patterns books like they are cookbooks, expert developers understand that innovation applied to patterns can lead to exponential performance gains.&#8221;
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• The rise of the development environment architect

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    &#8220;The development environment is not a domain that traditionally concerns workers in the software architect role&#8221;. Well, that&#8217;s not exactly true. Perhaps in small and mid-sized orgs, but in big orgs, usually there is a development architecture team.
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