So I finally got around to checking out the TED site; I’ve quickly become a fan. One of the first talks I watched was by Steven Levitt’s child carseats talk. Both the talk and the feedback comments on the TED site reminded me of things I see in software development.
(This is part two in a series I have titled “Soft Skills in Software”, which came out of points I came up with for a panel discussion at CodeMash 2008.) When introducing change in a technology practice, you can save yourself some frustration by being… Read More »Keep a long-term perspective; know your “sales cycle”
My post about a Python web frameworks OpenSpace convened at CodeMash drew a bit of attention, and looking over it again, I can see how it can send messages I did not intend. In order to break my trend of sitting on posts for weeks… Read More »Mark Ramm, friend and exemplar
One OpenSpace topic convened at CodeMash was “Python Web Frameworks”. TurboGears seemed to be the most-represented citizen of the Python web world, but some asserted that they use Django. I had skipped Brian Goetz‘s “Java Performance Myths” talk in favor of this, even though I… Read More »Curb Your (Python Web Framework) Enthusiasm
Ever hear the parable of the prodigal son? If you have had any length of exposure to the Christian New Testament, the answer is probably yes. It’s this one parable Jesus shared, captured in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 15, verses 11-32. A depressingly large contingent of the Java™ community shares some annoying similarities to that prodigal son.
The Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, Colorado has the central theme of “Java off the server”. Given that topic, why (besides the skiing) would I haul out to Crested Butte for this meeting? In short, I am here because I know what Open… Read More »So what is a server-side guy doing at the Java Posse Roundup 2007?
Bruce Eckel‘s writeup posted to Artima tonight. He did a good job of capturing the blow-by-blow on our progression through TurboGears.
By the end of today, I feel quite confident that TurboGears holds great potential as a productive web application framework. We went through all of the 20-Minute Wiki and TurboTunes tutorials. It would take a full-blown article to cover the stuff I’ve seen, but for… Read More »Web Frameworks Jam, Day 3
The second day of the WFJ for me was the second half of my journey up the learning curve on installing TurboGears (TG) on Debian with Python 2.3 and 2.4 installed. The predicament seems to have been that 2.3 is still the default Python version,… Read More »Web Frameworks Jam, Day 2
We kicked off the Web Frameworks Jam today, and so far it looks like another great event. We ended up sorting into three groups, one for TurboGears, one for Spring/Hibernate, and one for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Bruce, Dianne, and I are the TurboGears… Read More »Web Frameworks Jam, Day 1