Aging with grace. Reg calls this statement by Jonathan Schwartz “hubris”:
It’s one of the few technologies that may outlast the century.
What’s another way of saying old? Mature. Yes. Wisdom of years. Yeah, that too. Many winters. Yeah, all that, but I’m looking for something else that’s strongly correlated with looking down at the young ones. DHH, quoted by InfoWorld:
We don’t want to turn into Java — this pack rat that just holds onto any possession. We’re not afraid to take out stuff that’s not relevant or that we plain don’t like.
Not my fault people are stupid. Another good one from Reg, this time on the wonders that is Vista:
Frankly, the world wasn’t 100 percent ready for Windows Vista.
Well, that world need to shape up and get ready for the ZunePhone.
The NSA got nothing on us. Obviously these numbers are the result of over-active imagination and shutting down the critical thinking parts of the brain, but even when brought back to reality, we’re talking about large scale on-demand distributed grid computing from COTS hardware, in the last place you want it to be.
Also, sourcing components from eBay to crack SHA-1/MD5 hashes.
SOA on life support, critical condition, may not survive the night. Back to school week has a lot to teach us about doing SOA right:
- Overkill is 2007, let’s do Guerrilla instead.
- MEST is the new cool kid (there).
- Is your ESB hurting your SOA?
- The cure to our disillusionment blues.
- The War is over, no deadline set for a pull out yet.
Test me a story. evang.eli.st has a great overview on using RSpec to test with user stories:
Scenario "Publisher with one video" do
Given "a user named", "publisher"
And "a company named", "Has Videos"
And "the user belongs to", "company", "Has Videos"
And "# published videos belonging to company", "Has Videos", 2 do |company_name, num_videos|
create_videos_for(Company.find_by_name(company_name), num_videos)
end
And "logged in as", "publisher"
When "visiting", "/"
Then "viewer should see", "main/user_home"
Then "page should show video titled", "Has Videos 1" do |title|
response.should have_text(/#{title}/)
end
Then "page should show video titled", "Has Videos 2"
end