The tangible disconnect between stakeholders who define requirements and developers who implement them has long plagued software development. In recent years, however, frameworks based on dynamic languages and domain-specific languages (hint– easyb!) are bridging the stakeholder-developer gap by making code read more like normal language.

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Napoleon Bonaparte cleverly mused long ago that

history is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

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Is Scala, which was designed only a short while ago (comparatively speaking, that is) poised for stardom? Or will Clojure achieve greatness instead?

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CIO.com recently published a hip article entitled “Stupid QA Tricks: Colossal Software Testing Oversights“, which examines five particularly egregious lapses perpetrated by IT organizations.

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I recently had to assist a copasetic client with moving a project from one Subversion repository to another repository.

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English poet John Dryden, once mused:

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

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Concurrency programming is difficult to get right– when I mused that I was concerned “that nobody really cares”, I was pleasantly surprised by a series of comments which serve to highlight the issue at hand; that is, CPU architectures are evolving, man, and Java’s concurrency model might not fit the bill.

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Concurrency is hard.

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I read an interesting article on SD Times the other day entitled “Agile Testing Fact and Fiction“, in which the author makes a hip effort at dispelling five perceived myths regarding testing in an agile environment.

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SD Times recently published a hip article entitled “Lost in translation“, which does a great job of profiling the long standing disconnect between those that define requirements (i.e. stakeholders) and those that implement them (i.e. developers).

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On October 27th, I will have the pleasure of joining my hip friend Rod Coffin in Boston for an easyb half-day tutorial. In this tutorial, hosted by the Software Development Best Practices 2008 conference, we’ll be spreading the good news of collaborative story development with easyb.

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I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Guillaume Laforge (Groovy’s hip Project Manager) for JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider regarding the imminent release of Groovy 1.6.

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On Wednesday, October 8th, I will have the pleasure of giving an easyb presentation to the Richmond Java Users Group. This presentation follows a similar presentation I gave to the Northern Virginia Java Users Group in early September, which turned out to be a great time, baby!

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