Monthly Archives: October 2007

Sitting on the other end of the table

I’m having something of an interesting experience at the moment- a real life learning experience. I find myself sitting on the other side of the table. See, I’m hiring a lawyer. Some explanation is in order here. All my adult/professional life, I’ve been a software developer- which means that people come to me with problems [...]

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On a Static vs. Dynamic Typing Panel

OTUG Meeting on Static vs. Dynamic Typing, November 15th, 2007 Hosted by Hamlet D’Arcy and featuring Charles Nutter (a major powerhouse behind JRuby). Also featuring Paul Cantrell (who doesn’t have a website that I can see), and possibly Hamline’s own Professor K: Professor Wolciech Komornicki. Should be an excellent discussion.

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Java Posse, .Equals(), Inheritance, and the Liskov Substitution Principle

Continuing the conversation had by Raganwald, me, and a lot of the rest of the blogosphere.

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DevJam.Biz is Live: Hussman Lives!

David Hussman has published his DevJam.biz website, which was previously just “Coming Soon”. Looks good. Anyone in the Agile development scene in MN who doesn’t know David should go out of their way to meet him. He’s sharp, and really understands both the nature of technical development and business needs. His insight into how to [...]

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Raganwald Takes on Objects

Raganwald: Too much of a good thing: not all functions should be object methods It’s a great post. I took on the general argument writ small when I fought with Java and its #equals method in these posts: Description of the Problems Java has with CompareTo and Equals A Problem with my solution to the [...]

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