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WTF: Build Failed: No Failed Tests Found
16 April 08 04:47 AM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
The guys at Codehaus are moving the continuous integration servers. I must say that I had a WTF-moment when this build failure notification dropped in my inbox: I find it amusing that the build failed because “all the tests passed”. The real Read More...
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Reminder: Quick and Dirty Fixes Are Expensive
15 April 08 05:35 AM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
Last week I wrote a short anecdote about getting big, upfront design wrong . The next chapter is on quick and dirty fixes. You know, those hacks we do to “make something work”. These often come about after frenetic debugging session, where Read More...
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I'm on Twitter
14 April 08 09:58 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
OK, I know I'm late to the party here, but I've started to upgrade from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. I've even got myself a Twitter profile. You guys can keep an eye on what I'm wasting time on at http://twitter.com/anoras. Read More...
CodeDomProviders and Compiler Magic
13 April 08 08:05 PM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
Before .NET 3.5 was released the choice of whether you should choose Visual Basic or C# as your programming language was more or less a matter of taste. With the first incarnations of these languages, you could do virtually the same things with both. Read More...
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Reminder: Getting BDUF Wrong Is Expensive
09 April 08 06:39 AM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
Last November my family and I move into a brand new apartment. Since we’ve moved in, we’ve had builders coming in to fix things over and over again. Today they started to “refactor” the wiring in our kitchen. Maybe I should get Read More...
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More on generics and Inversion of Control
06 April 08 09:29 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
My last post on Java generics and the Repository pattern got a bit of interest. Judging from the feedback I got, I feel the need to elaborate on the Inversion of Control part of this. As some readers pointed out, Google’s Guice container employes Read More...
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Generics, Inversion of Control and Repository<T>
03 April 08 07:32 AM | andersnoras | 4 Comments   
Whenever I stray off the beaten path of Java generics, I instantly miss C#’s generics implementation. Earlier today, Java’s type erasure erased a few good hours of productivity whilst I was doing a spike on bringing the IRepository<T> experience Read More...
A framework for cross platform DSL development
31 March 08 06:42 PM | andersnoras | 6 Comments   
One of the challenges I have experienced when giving talks or blogging about domain specific languages is that developers are a little reluctant to writing code in languages they are unfamiliar with. This holds true even if the DSL in question is an external Read More...
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Vibrant Ink for IDEA
25 March 08 04:50 AM | andersnoras | 6 Comments   
I’m not sure if its because Java developers have a flurry of good IDEs to choose from, but IDE pimping is a rare hobby among Java developers. However, since I’m a polyglot developing stuff in a range of languages I enjoy having a familiar, Read More...
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English as a DSL
13 March 08 06:25 AM | andersnoras | 5 Comments   
“Programming is best regarded as the process of creating works of literature, which are meant to be read… so we ought to address them to people, not to machines.” -Donald Knuth, Literate Programming The last few days there has been a Read More...
Videos from Heroes happen {here}
12 March 08 03:57 AM | andersnoras | 4 Comments   
Last week I was awarded the MSDN Guru award at the Heroes happen {here} event in Oslo. The videos from the show have been posted and you can watch me accepting the award, giving the obligatory thank you speech and getting interview below. If you can’t Read More...
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Notebook Fetish
10 March 08 06:22 AM | andersnoras | 6 Comments   
After giving my talk on language oriented development with .NET for the Oslo chapter of the Norwegian .NET User Group I was approached by one of the attendants who pointed out that I had excellent taste in notebooks. Most people though he was referring Read More...
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Babysteps in Scala
10 March 08 05:11 AM | andersnoras | 4 Comments   
There are always some Java developers who attend whenever I give my .NET DSL talk. This is super cool, and at it makes for some new challenges. The most common one is “How can we do these things with Java”. Since the JavaZone guys have introduced Read More...
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Hero happend {there}
09 March 08 06:26 AM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
On Thursday I was award the “MSDN Guru” award during the Norwegian Heroes Happen {here} launch event. This was fun, and I just want to thank the people who nominated me for the award. I feel very humble to be the winner among the other nominees, Read More...
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Thank you Google!
28 February 08 02:39 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
I got these blog recommendations in Google Reader this morning… …if you recommend this blog to someone who isn’t writing it, that would be even better! Read More...
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