Archive for January, 1970
FeatureDevotion
agile
2 November 2006
A common, perhaps dominant, practice of agile methods is to
develop a list of features (often called stories) for the software
that’s being built. These features are tracked with index cards,
work queues, burndown charts, backlogs, or whatever your tool of
choice is.
On the whole I like this kind of approach. By breaking down
everything you need to […]
RubyAnnotations
dsl
26 October 2006
One of Ruby’s most popular features is its support for
metaprogramming, that is features that act like they change the
language itself - introducing things like new keywords.Although the mainstream curly-brace languages have less support
for metaprogramming in general, one useful feature they do have is
Annotations. Annotations are an important capability for
the language enhancement InternalDslStyle. At […]
Updated web site: A video of my keynote at RailsConf is now
online. The good news is that this link takes you to everyone else’s
too. They’re not all up there yet, but PragDave’s is and the
rest will follow shortly.
