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Command Query Responsibility Segregation

CQRS stands for Command Query Responsibility Segregation. It's a pattern that I first heard described by Greg Young. At its heart is a simple notion that...

0 replies - 10743 views - 07/17/11 by Martin Fowler in News

Daily Dose: Mule's Integration PaaS Goes Beta

Mulesoft has announced the beta version of Mule iON, a cloud-based integration platform-as-a-service which allows developers to integrate and orchestrate...

0 replies - 13119 views - 07/05/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Book Review: Uncle Bob's "The Clean Coder"

2 replies - 8158 views - 06/28/11 by Ben Linders in Book Reviews

Flag Argument

A flag argument is a kind of function argument that tells the function to carry out a different operation depending on its value. Let's imagine we want...

4 replies - 4910 views - 06/24/11 by Martin Fowler in News

The Second Law of Optimization

By now everybody and their screensaver have heard the Optimization Mantra: Don’t Do It! This is commonly wrapped in a three-rule package (I...

10 replies - 4923 views - 06/18/11 by Ashod Nakashian in News

Fedora: Recovering from the IntelliJ ‘Ctrl-Alt-F7′

We’re using Fedora on our local developer work stations and some of the default key bindings of the operating system seem to conflict with ones...

2 replies - 3465 views - 06/17/11 by Mark Needham in News

Daily Dose: Scala Moves From Subversion To Git Hub

In an unsurprising maneuver that seems to echo the strategies of many other projects, Scala has moved their repository from Subversion to Github. Some...

0 replies - 12945 views - 06/14/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Prerequisites for Continuous Deployment

Although we’ve skirted around the edges of Continuous Deployment on this blog, we haven’t really gone into any details. The main reason...

3 replies - 6885 views - 05/21/11 by Daniel Ackerson in News

The 4 rules of simple design

A colleague of mine told me a bit ago that Red-green instead of Red-green-refactor was becoming an issue: many commits where made just when the green bar was...

0 replies - 11763 views - 05/17/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Is AgileUnit the next test generation?

I found a very innovative project at sourceforge called AgileUnit. It seems to me an alternative or supplement to junit. Very exciting for me is the approach...

1 replies - 809 views - 05/16/11 by Ricardo Ferreira in Announcements

As A Software Engineer, Do You Really Like Your Job?

I love how things happen. First, I ask for feedback on the blog Facebook page about what types of posts people would like to see. Someone asks for more...

4 replies - 12431 views - 05/02/11 by Robert Diana in News

Eradicating Non-Determinism in Tests

An automated regression suite can play a vital role on a software project, valuable both for reducing defects in production and essential for evolutionary...

1 replies - 3058 views - 04/14/11 by Martin Fowler in News

Software Craftsmanship promotes Competence Culture

The rise of anemic Scrum was noted to dismay among the Agile community and in particular by “Uncle Bob” Martin who coined the fifth Agile manifesto...

1 replies - 5949 views - 04/08/11 by Michael Sahota in News

The measures of programming

80 rows and 25 columns were the measures of one of the most popular VGA text modes in the 1980s and 90s. Today we have far more powerful graphic cards, which...

15 replies - 7558 views - 04/07/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Certification Competence Correlation

Most of my friends and colleagues are very negative about certification schemes in software development, a disdain that I share. This doesn't mean that I...

1 replies - 4157 views - 03/28/11 by Martin Fowler in News