Virtual Surreality

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Browsing Posts published in May, 2006

Cat Stevens has a great song called “Rubylove”. I play it from my laptop when some of the guys from the office come in. Although I dislike mishmashed syntax, I’ve played with OCAML and Scheme over the past few days and have come to the conclusion that Ruby is the best of a bad bunch [...]

Last weekend a group of antipodean ThoughtWorks blokes (plus Suzie) crashed our Melbourne office for the inaugural Service Oriented Systems Practice workshop. We had a Saturday full of learning and discussion, the morning sessions being mostly introductory technological concerns, and the afternoon tended towards business problems and commercial practicalities. I myself (as opposed to you [...]

Check out this fantastic new book that’ll help drag physical data modelling into the agile arena… Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott Ambler and Pramod Sadalage, my fellow ThoughtWorker. No secret that I reckon it’s the best book out at the moment, not just because I got a mention in the acknowledgements