Archive for the tag 'design'

Mar 28 2009

Disconnected architecture

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I was reading an interview with Renzo Piano in this fridays issue of D2. He is one of the most revered architects of our time and is responsible for many great buildings, amongst them the Pompidou centre in Paris which was his first big break through. He is known for his innovative ideas, but also [...]

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Jan 17 2009

DDD and generic repositories

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Reuse is good. That’s what we learn, so we all strive to reuse code, but sadly sometimes we over generalize and try to be too clever. I have had the suspicion that creating generic repositories that takes criteria/queries as input parameters is one such over generalization. Some things, in fact a lot of things, are [...]

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Sep 18 2008

JavaZone 2008 is over

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So JavaZone 2008 is over. Had a blast, and saw lots of cool stuff. It was a bit crowded some times, and a bit too many talks was full, but all in all good. Just a short summary for on the good stuff:

Heidi Arnesen Austlid on Open Source in the public sector – The government [...]

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Sep 01 2008

Abstractions always leak

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A quote of a quote in a InfoQ article on the release of GWT 1.5:
Key point: GWT gives you a lot of leverage, but it isn’t intended to be a “walled garden” in any way. Abstractions always leak, so it’s better to embrace that fact. We intentionally make it easy for you to punch through [...]

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