Monthly Archives: June 2005

Cirrus Minor – A New Architecture Site

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has set up an interesting new site / blog dedicated to software architecture. Of particular note, he’s trying to put some detail on the architecture “process” which is often negelcted as a single box on the development process … Continue reading →

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

Domain-Specific Languages

There seems to be quite a lot of activity on the “Domain Specific Language” front at the moment. Martin Fowler published “Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?”, in which he concludes that the common programming pattern of setting … Continue reading →

Sunday, June 26, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Code & Development, Thoughts on the World

The Fear Premium

In an interesting echo of my last piece (Why Software Isn’t Like Building Construction), Scott Ambler has analysed bureaucratic processes as a response to management fear about what can go wrong in software development. His conclusion is that these processes … Continue reading →

Thursday, June 23, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

Why Software Isn’t Like Building Construction

Many software development and management methods are founded on a basic assumption – that constructing software is rather like building a bridge or a house. Once we’ve “done the design”, actually generating the software ought to be a completely predictable, … Continue reading →

Monday, June 20, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

Waltzing with Bears

A good book covering an important and negelected area Continue reading →

Friday, June 10, 2005 in Reviews