Smells of bad code

Navigating through the hypes, Software architectures and patterns to help avoiding your projects to crash – this year’s DevDays talk.

By shoogend at 18 March, 2009, 11:40 pm

Good to hear that I’ve made the program of this year’s Microsoft DevDays. Will be a challenging talk on software architecture and patterns, titled just like this blog post. Here’s the description. Hope you like it. Navigating through the hypes, Software architectures and patterns to help avoiding your projects to crash When it comes to [...]

The merits of two-tier architecture. Domain driven development in the distributed era. Episode II

By shoogend at 27 February, 2009, 1:26 pm

Go to episode one. So now you’re stuck with this two-tier architecture. Is this a problem. Well, not yet. However, it can become a huge problem, and it has become a huge problem in many, many client / server applications, in a vide variety of technologies, including several types of (legacy) web application technologies. The [...]

So much to write, so little time

By shoogend at 4 February, 2009, 11:52 am

It’s too bad there’s only 24 hours in a day. There are so many ideas in my head that I still have to write down, that I have to make a (short) list now to keep my head from exploding. So here it is: White paper on how to do agile SAP projects using smart [...]

Why do you need a layered architecture?

By shoogend at 12 January, 2009, 5:56 pm

The first business software I wrote professionally – that is, got paid for – was a set of small and similar calculation applications. I wrote these in the pre-Windows era in some version of Turbo Pascal. And no matter how ignorant I still was about good software architecture, these small applications already had a notion [...]

Why do we need software architecture?

By shoogend at 15 December, 2008, 12:14 pm

Over the past twenty or so years I have been involved in many software development projects, code reviews, and software factory implementations. Although I had stretched the virtues of good software architecture for decades, it wasn’t until a series of recent event, that I really started re-valuing of having a sound software architecture in place. [...]

Core [in Dutch]

By shoogend at 26 June, 2008, 9:41 am

Het is maandagmorgen. Er schijnt een waterig zonnetje over Ede. Ik parkeer mijn auto op het parkeerterrein van de Reehorst dat verlaten oogt bij de start van de nieuwe werkweek. Ook vandaag is de Reehorst het toneel voor een Software Developers Event. Één sessie in het bijzonder heeft mijn interesse: Addressing non-functional requirements with aspects. [...]

Smells of bad code [1]

By shoogend at 17 March, 2008, 12:46 pm

Can’t help it. Looking at someone else’s code is just plain fun. Especially when it’s not that well architectured. It seems that I keep running into nice fragments of how not to code. Well, to be honest, my colleagues tend to help out, and send me all kinds of code examples. Have a look at [...]