ReSTful web services have been popular for some time, yet still today there is confusion about what it means. Some will say it is a web service that doesn’t use SOAP standards, others will argue it has to do with using HTTP’s PUT and DELETE methods along with their more […]
You a member of an agile development team planning out your next sprint. You have estimate your velocity at 33. You currently have a load of 32. There is a remaining story that has been estimated as having 2 story points (using a Fibonacci sequence). Would it be a mistake […]
Now that I have (somewhat) recovered from the 2011 Clojure Conj, I can finish up my reflections. Starting with Rich’s keynote (which was on Day 2, but I didn’t have time to respond to then), as I said earlier it was more of a technical talk than the philosophical keynotes […]
Ok, so after 3 days of agile training followed by two full days of Clojure Conj, I am a bit ready for a rest. Too much coffee and convention food can make my stomach feel a tad off. Anyway, yesterday started off ominously enough, with a Veterans Day parade shutting down a […]
So a quick recap of the good and bad during the first day of the 2011 Clojure Conj. Lets start with the good: A fantastic talk by Arnoldo Muller-Molina on using Clojure in some very interesting bioinformatics problems. Two very interesting talks on logic programming, one by Ambrose on Clojure’s core.logic, […]