Of the many projects I have worked on the rewrite of the Guardian website is certainly a highlight. And in this case I can even speak about it in detail. In fact, Mat Wall from the Guardian and I presented some of our experiences at several conferences, and now the Software Engineering Radio has published a podcast in which we talk about this project.
It has been in the making for some time but now the ThoughtWorks Anthology is available from the Pragmatic Programmers. The Anthology is a collection of essays written by individual authors from ThoughtWorks covering a wide range of topics that we encounter on our projects. My essay finally gets our thinking on Domain Annotations into writing, after we had presented the ideas at a couple of conferences. A more in-depth description of the Anthology can be found on the Pragmatic Bookshelf.
I have looked at applications of visualisations techniques to improve software quality for good while now, and at a QCon conference earlier this year Floyd Marinescu and I chatted about my current thinking. If you are interested, the full interview has been published on InfoQ now. More here.
I’m completely convinced that development processes following the ideas outlined in the Agile Manifesto have helped us tremendously when delivering software for our clients at ThoughtWorks. (You noticed that I didn’t just say “Agile processes”; this term has become overloaded to the point of being almost meaningless. It’s good to go back to first principles.) At the same time I’m involved with a few Open Source projects.
So, what’s in the intersection of these two topics? The answer is in an article that has been published in this month’s issue of Linux User.
I know this is not available freely and I will make this article available online soon.
Ian Cartwright and I had many many discusions about SOA, what it means for us, for the industry, whether it’s something revolutionary or just a rebranding excercise.
We finally managed to get our thoughts together and wrote and article that just appeared in the Business IT Interface section of the British Computing Society’s site.
Read the full article here.