Viewing by month: December 2006
Flex Conference Announced
Posted on Dec 06, 2006
Registration is now open for the 360Flex Conference in San Jose from March 5-7. Registration is an unbelievable $100 including meals! The list of speakers, including Ben Forta, Ted Patrick and Christian Cantrell among many others whose names will likely be familiar, is also impressive. I am not sure I will be attending, though I would very much like to. Nonetheless, this looks like an opportunity worth jumping on ASAP.
Is OO Programming in Decline?
Posted on Dec 06, 2006
DZone had a link to a post by Allen Riddle discussing what he called the decline of OO in the enterprise. It is a brief opinion piece in which he states that in many cases the push for service oriented architectures (SOA) has caused OO to be lost because objects become little more than data structures used to pass information around in a service layer that functions very much like a procedural application. He gives the example that you might then find a car object that doesn't know how to drive, but rather is told how to by the service.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - December 4
Posted on Dec 04, 2006
Four new projects this week, but, otherwise, this was the week of Mach II. Besides version 1.1.1 going stable, Peter and Matt kept the aggregators busy with a number of important updates and calls for feedback.
XML Haters United
Posted on Dec 01, 2006
Peter Bell recently sparked debate within the ColdFusion community about the value of XML, specifically focused on the ubiquitous XML config file. Peter (at the time) was part of an increasingly vocal group of XML haters within larger community of programmers in various languages. Peter has since been converted, but the argument will not go away. Take, for instance, this post which claims in its title to reveal some fallacies about XML but ends up being simply a collection of comments made by others about generally not liking XML (I, for one, never caught a single fallacy that was laid bare here).