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An evening on the Go

Ben — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:47:44 +0000

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Last Thursday (July 22nd, 2010) Rob Pike, a Principal Engineer at Google, gave a talk at the O’Reilly Open Source conference. In this talk he stated that established languages such as C++ and Java are too complex and not adequately suited for today’s computing [...]

Axon Framework 0.5 released

Allard — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:27:59 +0000

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Today, I finalized the 0.5 release of the Axon Framework. There is quite a number of changes since the 0.4 version. The 0.5 version is a major step towards production readiness of the framework.

Besides some changes to existing building blocks, such as [...]

Axon Framework – the CQRS framework for Java – version 0.4 released

Allard — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:57:56 +0000

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Last week, I published the 0.4 release of the Axon Framework. Axon helps developers build high performance, scalable and extensible applications using the CQRS pattern. The 0.4 release is a major step towards 1.0, and includes transactional event handling, high-performance caching repositories and easy [...]

CQRS made easy with cqrs4j

Allard — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:37:00 +0000

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Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an architectural style that makes a clear distinction between commands, which tell an application to do something, and queries, which are requests for information from an application. This distinction comes from the fact that the requirements (and [...]

Open source as in free

jettro — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:34:32 +0000

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Last week I was at the NLJug J-Fall. This is a conference for Java developers organized in the name of the Dutch Java Users Group. One of the keynotes was given by Reginald Hutcherson from Sun. He talked about Sun and of course [...]

Yes We Can….the day after

Ben — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:35:22 +0000

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On November 4, 2008 a great wish came true for most of the United States and the rest of the world: a great alliance of liberals, progressives, new voters, young voters, men, women, blacks, hispanics and people who wanted change in general rose up [...]

Redesigning libraries completely

Ben — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:53:23 +0000

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I just got done reading Jettro’s post on refactoring your library. And still being in the vacation mood, it reminded me of an idea that surfaces in my so-called brain every now and then: the public library for the twenty-first century.

Much like Jettro [...]

Does professionalization kill open source?

jettro — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:31:43 +0000

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Some time a go I was talking to Freddie. We were talking about my previous article discussing open source : Open source, fashion or commodity. He asked what has changed in the last two years in open source landscape. One of the things that [...]

Open source, fashion or commodity

jettro — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:08:42 +0000

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Everyday I hear the words open source coming by more than once. Alright, I admit, open source is a big part of my work. In the ICT world talking about open source is very fashionable at the moment. If I am thinking about my [...]