I’m a certified ScrumMaster now!
It’s been awfully quiet here… I know.
I had some busy month since the start of the year. A lot of tasks needed my full attention and things like blogging received a sudden low priority. But thing are changing for the better and this leaves me more time to talk about the things I do.
The main reason: My team was introducing Scrum at the start of the year and I was one of the driving
NHibernate Attributes
I am using NHibernate for some years now, mainly to integrate an existing database into the new shiny .NET version of the application while it is still being used by a legacy application.
It’s served very well as an integration technique saving me from headaches more than once. Especially when moving from MS SQL Server to Oracle to MySQL while attracting more customers to the application.
Thus, I use mapping files which are deployed alongside the
What’s so hard about exceptions?
I keep wondering… Why is it actually so hard to handle exceptions correctly?
There are a few ground rules to follow and still people tend to overcatch or throw far too general exception types. As a recent empirical study suggests, this seems to be a general problem throughout software development. There is a brief, very well written guideline for .NET development, I keep waving at my team. I bet there is a similar guide
Visual proof
There is actually a picture of me, listening quite sceptically to Axel Uhl’s talk at the ECOOP 2007 reception. As I mentioned earlier, although I did not agree with him on everything, I really like his key points. I wasn’t so sceptic as it may appear. 
ECOOP 2007 – last day
The day started promising with Jonathan Aldrich’s talk on “Assuring Object-Oriented Architecture”. For me as a software architect, this was the talk of the conference. He was giving a wonderful round trip through the various approaches on assuring architectures. I made loads of notes.
Frankly, the only other talk that really caught my attention on that day was Michael Haupt’s talk on a machine model for AOP. But it was the last day and I was
ECOOP 2007 – second day
Whoa, this have been some weeks. Sorry about the delay, but my workload was a bit over the top.
In addition to my last post, I also attended a rather interesting talk given by Mandana Vaziri of IBM Research. About the possibility to declare a notion of object identity beyond the error prone equals/hashCode approach. She has given an insight in the long term goal of querying the heap in the way of
ECOOP 2007 – the first day
After a pretty bumpy journey (overbooked flight), I arrived just in time at the ECOOP in Berlin to catch Joe Armstrongs talk on Erlang. In retrospective it really was the right choice, because concurrency seems to be the top theme at the ECOOP this year. It certainly will be a top thing on every agenda for the next five years or so.
I had the chance to talk to Michael Haupt on the role of smalltalk
Preparing the ECOOP
I’m preparing my attendance on the ECOOP 2007 during the next days.
Quite frankly, I’m a bit nervous. I’m going to be a conference newbie. Well not quite, I’ve been a student volunteer during ECOOP 2003 in Darmstadt, but being a regular attendee will be different. I will only attend the main conference. Hopefully, I’m not missing out on much skipping the workshops.
The conference program looks promising for sure. I will present the most promising
Welcome
Bright, clean and written in English.
You will see categories appearing in the near future covering all the topics i’d like to discuss here.
