QCon Enterprise Service Bus Presentation
Jim Webber and Martin Fowler discuss ESBs, agile methods, and... ASCII man-boob p0rn. Must see!
JetBrains’ Dmitry Jemerov on Scala
I can rave about JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA until the cows come home - it is simply a superbly executed and very well focused product. What I found especially interesting is the following quote on Scala becoming a dominant language for the JVM:
I don't believe that, however: Scala is very complicated, it's tricky, and has a lot of surprises and edge-cases. I would say that Scala is at least as complicated as C++, and with C++ you need a hundred-page style guide before you even start writing C++ code, otherwise you'll end up writing C++ code that nobody will understand.
Scala gives an impression of great elegance and simplicity at first glance but the same goes for Perl as well. The one feature of Scala I really like is the language-level support for traits which allow reusing multiple concrete implementations similarly to multiple inheritance, but with fewer gotchas.
Via Artima: JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov on IntelliJ 8, Flex, and Scala.
Donald Knuth Interview
I came across this fascinating Donald Knuth interview via Artima. A couple of snippets to pique your interest, one on the subject of open source software:
[...] I think that a few programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, will always be superior to competitors like the Gimp—for some reason, I really don’t know why! I’m quite willing to pay good money for really good software [...]
And his opinon of reuse, with which I wholeheartedly agree:
I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. To me, "re-editable code" is much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I could go on and on about this. If you’re totally convinced that reusable code is wonderful, I probably won’t be able to sway you anyway, but you’ll never convince me that reusable code isn’t mostly a menace.
Other interesting topics he touches on include multi-core processor architectures and XP. Happy reading!
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