http://martinfowler.com/updates.atom 2009-07-30T16:36:00-04:00 Martin Fowler fowler@acm.org http://martinfowler.com Lists important updates to articles at http://martinfowler.com. (Blog entries are not included here) 2009-07-30T16:36:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-07-30:Software-and-Obama-s-Victory Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 Presidential campaign included a significant contribution from software - particularly using the Internet. But perhaps the most interesting aspect was the interplay between advances in software and developments in the human organization of the campaign. 2009-07-14T17:42:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-07-14:QCon-Talk-of-Ruby-at-ThoughtWorks InfoQ has posted the video of my talk at QCon London that talks about our experiences with Ruby. 2009-07-07T13:27:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-07-07:ThoughtWorks-Panel-Discussion Last month I was Chicago for a meeting of our technical leadership group. The Chicago office took advantage of this to run a panel session to discuss various hot topics in technology. I'm rightly overshadowed by Rebecca Parsons, Neal Ford, Ian Cartwright, Erik Dörnenburg, Josh Graham, and Ola Bini. We talk about cloud computing, language workbenches, certifying developers, and polyglot programming. 2009-06-29T19:14:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-06-29:Revitalizing-Enterprise-Software- AMP, an Australian financial services company, ran an internal conference called Amplify. They asked me to talk about agile software development. I thought about how to make this best fit into the overall flow of the conference, particularly since I expected a significant part of the audience to not be part of IT. I settled on talking about how IT projects can be infrastructural or strategic. This classification alters how you approach the projects, in particular on the way IT and business people should collaborate. 2009-06-26T11:24:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-06-26:Agilists-and-Architects--Allies-not-Adversaries- At QCon San Francisco 2008 Rebecca Parsons and I gave a talk about how agile approaches work with enterprise architecture groups. At the moment there's a lot of distrust and conflict between agile project teams and architecture groups. We dig into why this is so, and explore ways that these groups can work together. 2009-06-11T16:57:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-06-11:Ruby-at-ThoughtWorks ThoughtWorks started using Ruby for production projects in 2006, from then till the end of 2008 we had done 41 ruby projects. In preparation for a talk at QCon I surveyed these projects to examine what lessons we can draw from the experience. I describe our thoughts so far on common questions about Ruby's productivity, speed and maintainability. So far our conclusions are that Ruby is a viable platform that should be seriously considered for many forms of applications - in particular web applications using Ruby on Rails. I also go through some technical lessons, including some thoughts on testing with Active Record. 2009-06-10T10:04:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-06-10:Google-I-O-Talk-on-Cloud Rebecca Parsons and I talk about Google App Engine and the general world of clouds. In the first bit I talk about things various ThoughtWorkers learned from experiementing with App Engine, highlighting issues with testing, persistance, and concurrency. In the second part Rebecca talks about the broader issues enterprises will face with moving to the cloud. 2009-06-04T14:31:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-06-04:Hot-topics-panel-Jun-10--Chicago- I'm in Chicago next week for a major get-together of many of the leading technologists in ThoughtWorks world-wide. The Chicago Business Development people are determined to take advantage of us, so they've set up a panel to discuss hot topics in technology at lunchtime. It's quite the amazing group of people: Rebecca Parsons, Ian Cartwright, Ola Bini, Erik Döernenburg, Neal Ford, Pramod Sadalage, and Josh Graham. 2009-06-04T14:21:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-06-04:Catching-up-with-videos One of the main things I've not been getting around to announcing are various videos that have appeared of me jabbering on. Newish ones include a meta-introduction to DSLs, and interview on DSLs with Chris Sells (where I win a gold star for insensitivity by calling his newest pride-and-joy "19th century"), a JAOO 2008 panel interview on DSLs, and the QCon London keynote on software used by the Obama campaign. 2009-06-04T14:17:00-04:00 tag:martinfowler.com,2009-06-04:Using-Twitter I've been remiss about keeping the news column here up to date, partly because it needs some serious work on the publishing code, partly because I'm trying to focus on the DSL book, but partly because I've started to announce things on twitter.