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Whatever language you write in, your task as a programmer is to do the best you can with the tools at hand. A good programmer can overcome a poor language or a clumsy operating system, but even a great programming environment will not rescue a bad programmer. Kernighan and Pike When I attended Richard Öberg’s talk on Qi4J at the Oslo ...

My latest posts on DSLs caused a bit of a stir around the blogosphere. Some of of the more constructive debates have been on wether a fluent interface is just a fluent interface or if it can be labeled as a DSL. I have a consultant's answer to this; it depends. I my opinion my posts on the planning DSL concerns a DSL, even if it technically is ...

Two of the key benefits of an SOA are increased business agility and reduced cost of change. Still, many developers find that the intense focus on service contracts, data schemas and similar reduces their agility and prolong projects. An underlying assumption of the contract first approach is if you can design things right, you’ll achieve a ...

When designing a service contract, developers have the choice of using a code-first or a contract-first approach. Using the contract-first approach for service endpoints requires greater discipline, and might be considered a bit more “enterprisey” than the code-first approach. The ASP.NET web service framework enlists a code-first process that ...

A Transparent SOAP HTTP library