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re: ThoughtWorks Podcast #1 - Domain Specific Languages Part 1

DonXML — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:53:12 GMT

Alex, I had the opportunity to talk to kb and Martin about this over the weekend, and I offered words of encouragement. Hopefully it is just the first of many.

Don

re: ThoughtWorks Podcast #1 - Domain Specific Languages Part 1

Alex Hung — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:50:35 GMT

Don, I agree it is not a web site, but what is a web site nowadays? A web page? A whole site with forum, social networking, web 2.0, etc.? As a ThoughtWorker myself, I obviously believe in doing only what is needed and then build on top as the need arises :) As for the audio quality, it is terrible. It sounds like the podcast was recorded off a telephone conference call, and from a landline no less. Even a moderately cheap headsets (Plantronic's $50 ones), Skype, and a decent net connection will result in much better audio quality. That was what I used on Download Squad for this podcast (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/06/07/switching-to-ubuntu-linux-download-squad-switcher-podcast-1/). I am sure most, if not all, will be remedied by episode 2.

re: ThoughtWorks Podcast #1 - Domain Specific Languages Part 1

Sidu — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:19:05 GMT

Thanks for the feedback Don, we're working on it.

re: ThoughtWorks Podcast #1 - Domain Specific Languages Part 1

DonXML — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:28:17 GMT

Alex, the page www.thoughtworks.com/.../podcasts.html isn't a website, and it looks like it is for all ThoughtWorks podcasts, not something specific to the IT Matters podcast. Plus, the feed url is podcast.thoughtworks.com/itmatters/it_matters.xml">podcast.thoughtworks.com/.../it_matters.xml, so one would expect podcast.thoughtworks.com/itmatters/it_matters.html">podcast.thoughtworks.com/.../it_matters.html to be the home page for the IT Matters podcast, or at least the url podcast.thoughtworks.com/itmatters should route you to the home page (it doesn't you get a forbidden error message). Yes, I know this is just the first podcast, so I've got to give them some time to get it up and running. But for a company that has an image of a thought leader and agile, these sorts of things should be important to their image. But as the saying goes "The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes".

re: ThoughtWorks Podcast #1 - Domain Specific Languages Part 1

Alex Hung — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:02:28 GMT

Re: #1 http://www.thoughtworks.com/what-we-say/podcasts.html

re: PatternExpert - Not a .Net Patterns Expert

Loren — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:24:44 GMT

Thanks for the post... You saved me the time of looking at the product. I'm no pattern expert either, but I do have enough exposure to know that the singleton code you posted is so bad I don't need to look any further.

re: PatternExpert - Not a .Net Patterns Expert

DonXML — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:34:42 GMT

Colin, the link you gave, that is to Jon Skeet's site (which I linked to in the post).

re: PatternExpert - Not a .Net Patterns Expert

Colin Basterfield — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:12:11 GMT

Hi, I agree that looks ugly, but a little while ago I found this http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/singleton.html This is well worth looking at. Regards Colin

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re: PatternExpert - Not a .Net Patterns Expert

Bil Simser — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:14:55 GMT

I took a look at this thing a couple of months ago and then quickly uninstalled it as fast as I could after seeing what garbage it generated. Yeah, maintainable code is not on the high list of features for this tool. It gave me chilling reminders of Rational Rose and how it would mangle C++ code when you round-trip engineered UML diagrams. What a mess that was, this isn't much better. No, I can code up these patterns in a much better way than this tool does (and with a little work, just as fast).

re: PatternExpert - Not a .Net Patterns Expert

Jimmy Bogard — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:55:37 GMT

My favorite part is the Hungarian notation and the camelCase method names. I would love to see this code in action on a multi-threaded ASP.NET app. And couldn't "getInstance" check for null and lazy instantiate it? It doesn't look like the ref count is actually doing anything. And "releaseInstance" takes the instance as a parameter? Doesn't it already HAVE a reference in the private field? This is wacky, but nice WTF material. I think I would ask for my money back.

re: PatternExpert - Not a .Net Patterns Expert

Greg — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:33:10 GMT

From a quick look at it ... its not a bad thing ... They are just taking laziness a bit further. The singleton examples shown on skeet's blog consider the singleton to always be instantiated which depending on usage can be a good or a bad thing. This example allows the Singleton to be destroyed/reloaded. Each has their place... To me with such a tool I should be able to *say* which one I want though. On the bad side this Singleton implementation is not thread safe which can cause some pretty serious problems with the reference counting. In practice (if you follow best standards) I think this singleton will create/destroy a lot of objects. Just to be clear though this Singleton is a well known pattern ... whether or not it should be used really depends on what exactly you are trying to do. I would personally harp on their assumption that I want *this type of singleton*.

re: Heartland Developers Conference and ALT.Net

Dave Laribee — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:46:00 GMT

welcome don! looking forward to some posts on "this stuff" applied!

re: Heartland Developers Conference and ALT.Net

DonXML — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:35:43 GMT

Nate,

I’m glad you liked the talk. Sometimes, as a speaker, it is easy to get caught up in the people that you missed, and not focus on the people that you did connect with.

re: Heartland Developers Conference and ALT.Net

Nate Taylor — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:56:52 GMT

I atttended the Alt.Net and can easily say it was the best talk that I sat all the way through. I think the Linq talk might have been as good, but I had to leave half-way through to get to a Parent Teacher's conference. Anyway, I'm excited to be exposed to this site, Alt.Net and some of the technology mentioned in the lecture. Can't wait to make some downtime at work to download and explore some of these things. Thanks again.