This is a review of the book “Release it!” by Michael T. Nygard Go get this book. That is the short of this review. This is an excellent book, mainly targeted towards architects however I think developers should read it too. The author does an great job throughout the book showing how small issues can [...]
Archive for October, 2008
20 Oct
Local IO write performance in Zinc improved
Looks like the folks over at MDM have improved their local IO write support (windows only) with the release of v3.0.10 of MDM Zinc. This is probably due to Adobe AIR and people’s complaints about the lack of better support for writing ByteArray data to disk in Zinc. Note that this new feature is only [...]
12 Oct
Review: Interface Oriented Design
This is a review of “Interface Oriented Design” by Ken Pugh. I don’t have a ton to say about this book, it was a fairly quick read at about 200 pages. If you have a lot of experience with OO, the concepts presented within it are nothing that startling, however they may serve the reader [...]
3 Oct
Revew: The Definitive Guide to Terracotta
This is a review for the book “The Definitive Guide to Terracotta” by Terracotta, Inc. For several years I had known about Terracotta when the software was still closed source, and generally did not give it a look. Once Terracotta became open source my interest rose and I wanted to give it a look over [...]
