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Self programming language

A while ago I reflected on Object Oriented Programming and the fact that it really is more about classes than objects. Reading up on Newspeak, the new langugage proposed by Gilad Bracha I came across Self, one of the language on which Newspeak is indebted to. In Self no classes

Crystal Clear - by Alistair Cockburn

Crystal Clear is the smallest of a series of methodologies for software development, all created by Alistair Cockburn. It is smallest in the sense of the project size it addresses (up to eight developers) and in the number of things it prescribes. Other Methodologies, deriving their names from the colors

100 sidor för dig som hellre käkar taggtråd än kontaktar en kund

I 100 sidor för dig som hellre käkar taggtråd än kontaktar kunder ger Carola Forshell en grundläggande lektion i hur en säljprocess för försäljning till företag bör läggas upp. Boken är baserad på hennes personliga resa, från någon som avskyr sälj till en som arbetar som säljare på heltid och

Beyond Software Architecture - Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions - by Luke Hohmann

In Beyond Software Architecture, Luke Hohmann addresses all things paramount to software product development that are usually not covered in books on software development. These things include licensing, software protection, branding, marketing and business plans and how they relate to the technical architecture and more. Every developer or architect that

Map Reduce, Grid Computing and Next Generation Application Servers

While browsing the The Server Side’s list of Most Requested Content for 2007 I ended up reading about Google’s algorithm MapReduce, Grid Computing and Giga Spaces. For the (admittedly rare) cases where the applications really have to scale to huge loads (read Google, eBay etc) JEE app servers

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