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Zed Shaw and Matt Pelletier Decide if Rails is Enterprise Ready

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:07:58 GMT

Summary
Zed Shaw and Matt Pelletier sat down with InfoQ's Obie Fernandez at RailsConf to explore some of the reasoning behind setting up the mongrel project, getting adoption in enterprise and dealing with developers who just aren't ready. Watch the interview to find out how much Shaw's Enterprise Mongrel product will cost, where the support contracts are and who'll come out on top when the vultures land.

Bio
Zed Shaw has been developing software for close to 14 years professionally and has worked in such industries as academics, security, government, and companies big and small. Matt Pelletier is a partner at EastMedia, a software, mobile, and business development firm based in New York City.

Pragmatic Dave on Passion, Skill and 'Having A Blast'

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:37:03 GMT

Summary
At QconLondon 2007 Jim Coplien spoke with "Pragmatic" Dave Thomas for InfoQ. This energetic 30-minute interview runs the gamut of Dave's wide-ranging interests: 'agile' publishing; how to turn what you love doing into a book; programming (and methodology) monocultures; staying limber with code "katas"; and advice for academics: help your students live with the passion of a 5-year old!

Bio
Dave Thomas is recognized internationally as an expert who develops high-quality software - accurate and highly flexible systems. He helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly speak on new ways of producing software. He is the author of six books, including the best selling The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide.

Coplien and Martin Debate TDD, CDD and Professionalism

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:09:04 GMT

Summary
Debate sprang up at JAOO '07 around Bob Martin's assertion that "nowadays it is irresponsible for a developer to ship a line of code he has not executed in a unit test." In this InfoQ video, he debated with Jim Coplien on this and other topics, including Design by Contract vs. TDD and how much up-front architecture is needed to keep a system consistent with the business domain model.

Bio
Bob Martin is an Agile Manifesto author, and author of books on Agile Programming, XP, UML, O-O Programming, and C++. He is CEO and president of Object Mentor www.objectmentor.com/ Jim Coplien is a software pioneer in o-o programming and C++ and multi-paradigm design. He appreciates the human side of design, and has written critically acclaimed books on design and development.