Uncle Bob - Screaming Architecture

Interesting post by Uncle Bob on software architectures and what they should or should not be: http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2011/09/30/Screaming-Architecture.html

Although I'm a "fan" of Robert Martin, I don't completely agree with him on this one: an architecture doesn't have any value on a piece of paper, or on a slide or in the thin air. Architectures need to be materialized at some point and for that it's hard nowadays to avoid using frameworks or hardware topologies for that matter.

I'm not saying a framework should be the architecture, but unless you reinvent the wheel each time, you might find an architecture having to be tailored in certain areas so that "it fits". I just don't think you can define and document the architecture without thinking how that architecture is going to be implemented.

-> CoffeeScript

I know Javascript has had and still has a lot of issues and that there are a lot of people unhappy about that. I also know that it's not the cleanest or clearest language in the world, but seeing the "->" as a "first class operator" makes me cringe.

Douglas Crockford, another talk on Javascript

Even though Brendan Eich was under pressure when he first wrote it and therefore some mistakes were made,  my opinion is that Doug Crockford is one of Javascript's "pillars" currently: http://css.dzone.com/news/douglas-crockford-answers

HTML 5 Goodies

If you've been following the updates that HTML 5 will bring to the world of www, then you might've heard of web sockets. Here's a good presentation of what they are and how they "promise" to solve all your problems: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/WebSockets-The-Web-Communication-Revolution

Empowering Events

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Events-Are-Not-Just-for-Notifications

Cat Pictures

Steve Yegge, OSCON 2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8 . It doesn't start up as much, but keep watching, cause he makes a really good point. If you don't know who Steve is, tough - google him.

If you work in the industry (and I mean outsourcing - aka cotton-picking for the master), when is the last time you had a long hard look about your work ? Are you really happy doing what you're doing ?

...and keep lying to yourself that you really need the money because life is hard

LMAX - CQRS applied

If you've followed the Greg Young's series of CQRS talks, you should be familiar with the concept. Martin Fowler describes in his latest blog the architecture of a trading system, based in part on the above.