QCon London 2010 report: fix your code, adopt simplicity, cool .NET things

By tim, on March 12th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m just back from QCon London, a software development conference with an agile flavour that I enjoy because it is not vendor-specific. Conferences like this are energising; they make you re-examine what you are doing and may kick you into a better place. Here’s what I noticed this year.

Robert C Martin from

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March 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: .net, agile, azure, cloud computing, software development, ubuntu | Leave a comment

Technology trends: Silverlight, Flex little use says Thoughtworks as it Goes Google

By tim, on January 11th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Today Martin Fowler at Thoughtworks tweeted a link to the just-published Thoughtworks Technology Radar [pdf] paper, which aims to “help decision makers understand emerging technologies and trends that affect the market today”. It is a good read, as you would expect from Thoughtworks, a software development company with a bias towards

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January 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: .net, agile, google, internet, java, javascript, software, software development, web authoring | One comment

Adobe’s chameleon Flash shows its enterprise colours

By tim, on October 7th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Duane Nickull is Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe and co-author of Web 2.0 Architectures which I reviewed recently. He is also Duane Chaos of grunge band 22nd Century and entertained us at the Adobe MAX party last night in Los Angeles.

It’s appropriate that he works for Adobe, whose Flash runtime has parallel

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October 7th, 2009 | Category: adobe, agile, flash, software development | 4 comments

Beck on Agile: it’s all about the team

By tim, on March 13th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Kent Beck is really a relationship consultant, or should that be counsellor? This is not a bad thing. Beck gave a keynote this morning here at Qcon and talked a bit about techie topics like frequent deployment (he claims that Flickr deploys every half an hour) and creating more tests more often, but the

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March 13th, 2008 | Category: agile, microsoft, software development, windows | Leave a comment