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Immutability and Safety

Clojure has spoiled me forever. Work in clojure for any length of time, and you must get used to the idea that data structures are immutable. For programmers coming from imperative languages this can be jarring, (no loop counters? recursion? wtf?) but after a while, you start to get it, then you start to like it, then you start to rely on it - or at least I have.

To such an extent that it's jarring not to have them. After a recent javascript coding session, I tweeted: "clojure's immutability has forever spoiled me - destructive operations…

Blog post by William Caputo
25 May 2013

DDD - Diagram Driven Design

Drawing a picture turns out to be a useful system design technique.

Blog post by Gregor Hohpe
24 May 2013

What Does It Mean to Use Messaging?

I was recently asked to help a team decide whether they should use messaging. Of course, I have not forgotten what I learned during many years in consulting: the consultant always answers "it depends." A good consultant can tell you what the answer depends on. And a truly great consultant can convince you that you are asking the wrong question in the first place.

Blog post by Gregor Hohpe
24 May 2013

A Chapter a Day...

My New Year's resolution was to write more, so here my thoughts on how to actually make that happen. In a sense it's a plan for myself to be more productive, but hopefully the ideas also work for other folks. Ironically, my work on EIP II has been stalled for a good while, so you're getting advice on how to be a prolific writer from someone who has not written much in 2 years. Read on at your own risk.

Blog post by Gregor Hohpe
24 May 2013

EIP Visions

The beginning of a New Year is the time to reflect on the past and make resolutions for the future. It's become my tradition to kick off the year with some reflection on EIP, so here we go.

Blog post by Gregor Hohpe
24 May 2013

Clouds and Integration Patterns at JavaOne

I joined JavaOne this year as a panelist on Cloud Computing. Here my belated impressions on this year's JavaOne.

Blog post by Gregor Hohpe
24 May 2013

My First Google Wave Robot

By now everyone must have heard about Google Wave, the communication and collaboration platform announced at Google I/O. Google just announced that they are ramping up towards 20,000 developers on the current sandbox and will extend to 100,000 users by end of September. This will give many more people to opportunity to experiment with Wave.

Blog post by Gregor Hohpe
24 May 2013

Google I/O

I guess I am the last person to blog about Google I/O. By now, everyone should have read about Wave and the free Android phone (with 30 day SIM!). I am just now getting to write this up on my flight back to Japan, so I’ll give you my personal impressions and viewpoints, if you are still interested.

Blog post by Gregor Hohpe
24 May 2013

Into the Clouds on New Acid

I have been speaking more frequently about cloud computing in recent days. As SOA is becoming a daily reality, I needed to advance to new, still slightly nebulous topic. What could be a better fit than cloud computing? All jokes aside, cloud computing provides for some interesting discussions and one should safely assume that Google has a word or two to say about it.

Blog post by Gregor Hohpe
24 May 2013

Design Patterns: More than meets the eye

Blogging about design patterns seems about as original as blogging about the Java (TM) Programming Language, except for the missing (TM). However, as I just attended a workshop on software service engineering, I realized once again that people from different fields have very different notions about the concept and usage of patterns. Many workshop attendees raised questions about formalizing patterns, tooling, etc. I touched on this subject a tiny bit in a post from long time ago, but I figured that the topic really deserves more attention, especially since to me a pattern is so much more than the "proven…

Blog post by Gregor Hohpe
24 May 2013

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