Archive for November, 2008

Is DDD Worth It? It Surely Aint Gonna Save Us!

In this post, I will play the devils advocate a bit.
I attended several of the sessions in the Domain Driven Design (DDD) track on Øredev 2008 today, and to the end of the panel debate, I kind of got to thinking: “Why actually bother ourselves with DDD?”
Now, don’t get me wrong here. I actually like [...]

November 19, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Design, Programming  7 Comments

The D Programming Language Is Not For Me

Today at Øredev 2008, I learned about the programming language D, but also that D is not for me.
I had not had the chance yet, to sit down and take a look at D, so I thought it would be a nice idea for me to attend the session named “What Makes a Programming Language [...]

November 19, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Programming  10 Comments

RubyMine – A New Ruby IDE

Here is something interesting.
JetBrains is releasing their ruby and rails support in IDEA as a specially targetted product called RubyMine. I just took a download of the preview and tried it out. To a long term IDEA user, it looks an awful lot like, … IDEA I guess it is “just” a slimmed [...]

November 4, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tools  No Comments

Importance of URL Input Encoding and How To Set It

A while ago, we had a problem with international characters being mangled on parameters from an URL, which at the end made us uncover, that we had just relied on defaults for the setting of URL Input Encoding. And that can be a problem.
What URL Input Encoding Is
When a HTTP GET or POST request arrive [...]

November 4, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Module Settings are Moving in IntelliJ IDEA 8

Shortly before the soon coming final release of IDEA8, a completely new settings dialog started to appear on the EAP versions. With it, I found myself totally lost, because I was used to navigating directly into my module settings by hitting Ctrl-Alt-S + 1.
Actually, it took me a while to discover where the module settings [...]

November 4, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Tools  No Comments