TL;DR Live craftsmanship, don't preach it. The creation of a label serves no
purpose other than to disambiguate and distinguish. If we want to hold people accountable
to some sort of "professionalism", then we have to define what that means. I found
Uncle Bob's treatment of my blog heavy-handed and arrogant. I don't particularly want
to debate this anymore; this is my last take on the subject.

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TL;DR: To all those who dissented, you're right, but you're wrong. Craftsmanship is a noble meme, when it's something that somebody holds as a personal goal, but it's often coming across as a way to beat up and denigrate on others who don't choose to invest significant time and energy into programming. The Zen Masters didn't walk around the countryside, proclaiming "I am a Zen Master!"

Wow. Apparently I touched a nerve.

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I don't know Heather Arthur from Eve. Never met her, never read an article by her, seen a video she's in or shot, or seen her code. Matter of fact, I don't even know that she is a "she"--I'm just guessing from the name.

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Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous. He's wrong, and he's way late to the party on this one--it's coming to Java whether he likes it or not.

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Once again, it's time for my annual prognostication and review
of last year's efforts. For those of you who've been long-time readers, you know
what this means, but for those two or three of you who haven't seen this before, let's
set the rules: if I got a prediction right from last year, you take a drink, and if
I didn't, you take a drink. (Best. Drinking game. EVAR!)

Let's begin....

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A little over a decade ago, Eugene Wallingford wrote a paper for the PloP '99 conference, describing the Envoy pattern language, "a pattern language for managing state in a functional program". It's a good read, but the implementation language for the paper is Scheme--given that it's a Lisp dialect, often isn't particularly obvious or easy to understand at first, I thought it might be interesting (both for me and any readers that wanted to follow along) to translate the implementation examples into a variety of diff

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I'm running into a weird situation in some Scala code I'm writing (more on why in
a later post), and I'm curious to know from my Scala-ish followers if this is a bug
or intentional/"by design".

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There's an interesting legal interpretation coming out of the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) around the Megaupload case, and the EFF has said this:

"The government maintains that Mr. Goodwin lost his property rights in his data by storing it on a cloud computing service. Specifically, the government argues that both the contract between Megaupload and Mr.

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I received an email from Dimitar Teykiyski a few days ago, asking if he could translate the "Vietnam of Computer Science" essay into Bulgarian, and no sooner had I replied in the affirmative than he sent me the link to it. If you're Bulgarian, enjoy. I'll try to make a few moments to put the link to the translation directly on the original blog post itself, but it'll take a little bit--I have a few other things higher up in the priority queue.

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There aren't many times that I cancel out of a conference (fortunately), so when I do I often feel a touch of guilt, even if I have to cancel for the best of reasons. (I'd like to think that if I have to cancel my appearance at a conference, it's only for the best of reasons, but obviously there may be others who disagree--I won't get into that.)

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As the calendar year comes to a close, it's time (it's well past time, in fact) that
I comment publicly on my obvious absence from the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour.

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Remember the SAT test and their ridiculous analogy questions? “Apple : Banana as Steak : ???”, where you have to figure out the relationship between the first pair in order to guess what the relationship in the second pair should be? (Of course, the SAT guys give you a multiple-choice answer, whereas I’m leaving it open to your interpretation.)

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Two things conspire to bring you this blog post.

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This
CNET report tells us what we’ve probably known for a few years now: in the hacker/securist
cyberwar, the hackers are winning. Or at the very least, making it pretty apparent
that the cybersecurity companies aren’t making much headway.

Notable quotes from the article:

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Eric Evans, a number of years ago, wrote a book on “Domain Driven Design”.

Around the same time, Martin Fowler coined the “Rich Domain Model” pattern.

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