Posted by andy Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:16:00 GMT
I have moved my own development mostly to dynamic languages Ruby and Python, and I can see that these languages have had a big jump in popularity over the past year. This is not a fad. It is a very real and permanent response to increasing developer productivity.
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In 1999, there was a huge surge in interest in ASP’s for enterprise software. By 2001, pundits declared the model a failure. One analysis was that ASP’s wouldn’t be able to effectively service enterprise customers, because the systems needed to be customized and integrated, and doing so would …
Read more »Posted by andy Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:34:00 GMT
A friend of mine used to say “that’s repetitive AND redundant”. Three reasons why reuse is really important: 1) Customer awareness: Our enterprise prospects see reuse (in various forms, components, products, services) as a high-priority organizational mission, above open source. It was interesting that IBM saw reuse at the component …
Read more »Posted by andy@assembla.com Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:46:00 GMT
What if you could tell, immediately, whether a given person is going to be a great addition to your team? You would be the greatest manager in the history of the world. Thats the promise held out by a careful reading of the book Blink, the Power of Thinking without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell.
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