2006-01-29: Podcast started
Together with a few friends, I started to do a podcast. I recorded my first
episode together with Markus today. It will be postet as soon as we (actually Markus does
it, so thanks a lot! I know this is a lot of work.) will finish post production.
It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward doing more episodes. If you have ideas
on topics or some other feedback, please just send me an email.
Just go to http://www.se-radio.net/ to listen
to the stuff we've recorded until now. I hope listening is as much fun as recording them, so have fun!
So now I guess I'm up to speed again. Last week I started to blog and now a podcast. Hm, what will
I do next week?
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2005-01-20: Weblog started
As you might have seen in the navigation bar on the left, I started to
blog. Why do I blog and not just post the stuff on this page. Well, this
one is for the more "offical" stuff. In my blog I will dump my brain
directly without any quality filters attached. So take the blog with
the necessary grain of salt. Nevertheless I hope it will be interesting
or at least entertaining for you...
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2005-01-16: www.alegu.de Reloaded
I reworked my homepage completely, at least the way it is "produced". I replaced my old
Java programms that generated the page with one cool (at least I think it's cool) little
Ruby script. With the new script it's a lot easier
for me to add and change content because the script can handle infinte depth for the navigation
of the page.
The only unfortunate thing for you is, that the look and feel didn't change dramatically. It's
all behind the scenes stuff. (Not really, if you remember the old webpage I had a mix of the navigation
bar on the left and a second sub hierarchie on the top of the page; that's gone, now everything is in
the menu on the left; and it's all done without any javascript, just plain HTML)
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2005-10-01: New article online
I wrote another article for germans ObjectSpektrum which was published
in its MDSD online special edition. You can find it hear:
Programmiersprachen
basierte DSLs
As always I'm happy to get some feedback on the text...
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2005-10-01: Back from JAOO
I just returned from this years JAOO. It was a great conference.
You can see me on the photo (from left to right: me, Markus Völter and Floyd Marinescu)
at Wileys book signing event.
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2005-05-22: Review of WELC added
Working effectively with legacy code is definitively a outstanding work.
A lot thinks would have been easier for me in the past if I already had book
this some years earlier. So if you have to work with existing code (which
all programmers have to do), read this one. You won't be disappointed.
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2005-02-03: Microsoft Informed Architect
Microsoft invited me to become a Microsoft Informed Architect, which is a great honor to me.
Thanks a lot for your faith in my work!
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2005-01-2: Chinese translation of the Server Component Patterns Book available
Our book Server Component Patterns was translated to chinese!
Take a look if you are interested:
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2004-05-02: JAOO 2004 Cannes Report II
I did some minor corrections on the slides of my presentation
on Groovy at the JAOO in Cannes. Thanks to all the feedbackers out
there!
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2004-05-25: JAOO Report
The JAOO Cannes 2004 is now over and it was a great conference I can highly
recomend anyone. If you go for a conference, the JAOO is the place to be
here in Europe.
(I uploaded the slides for my presentation on Groovy on the conference page.
Feedback is as always welcome!)
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2004-05-02: JAOO 2004 Cannes
The JAOO got a brother. This year
for the first time the JAOO Cannes will be celebrated. It
is a great honor for me to be one of the speakers at this conference.
I will speak about groovy, the new and very promising scripting
language.
So if you have time and chance, come to the JAOO in Cannes as I'm
sure it will be a great event. Other speakers are Hays Skip McCormik, Rich Turner, Andy Hunt,
Allistair Cockburn and many many more. Check out the JAOO page for
more information...
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2004-03-25: The fifth discipline
I added a short review of Peter Senges "The fifth discipline".
Actually it is more a recomendation than a review. Beliefe me, this
is a must read for anybody...
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2003-12-26: Jay as example for grid computing
Frans Lundberg used Jay as an example for his grid computing
tools JLab. Very nice to see
for which things Jay can be used!
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2003-10-21: I will speak at the OOP2004
I got the chance to speak on next years OOP.
A fellow colleague and I will speak on Enterprise Architecture and Best Practices.
As this topic is one of the most important topics right now, I am looking
forward discussing it with all of you there. Hope to see you there...
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2003-10-21: Added a book review for Lean Software Development
Don't bother reading the review. Go to your next bookstore and buy it. Now!
(No I don't know the authors or get any kind of bonus ;-)
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2003-08-16: Jay.Net Sources added
I forgot to publish the sources of the C# version of Jay.Net.
You can find them now on the Jay.Net page.
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2003-06-08: New articel in XML & Webservices Magazin
Eberhard and I wrote an article on the influence of XML on software
architectures. The new XML & Webservices Magazin has printed it. Take a
look at the publications page to get more infos...
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2003-05-17: The XML One Slides are online now
I held the "OO vs Components vs XML" presentation at the XML One last monday.
The conference was small but nice. I met a lot of interesting people there. I put the
slides online in the conferences section. But beware, they are german...
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2003-04-01: Facts and fallacies of software engineering
I just added another book to my recommended reading list. It's called
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering. Brilliant book. I wonder what's
going on, the number of very good book seems to increase the last 2-3 years...
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2002-03-18: A lesson I relearned today:
Every question gets the answer it deserves!
In other words: try to optimize your questions. They are
the important part. The quality of the answer depends so much
on the question, that I wonder if asking is really the way to
go in some situations.
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2003-02-21: Webservices XML ONE
Eberhard and I will speak at the
Webservices XML ONE 2003 conference in munich. We will speak about OO, XML and how it fits together.
Hope to see you there...
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2002-01-25: An even faster Jay
Daniel Wunsch sent me an even faster version of Jay (30% faster!).
You can find it here: JayFaster
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2002-12-10: Article in Java Magazin released
The new Java Magazin 2003-01 includes an article written by Markus, Eberhard
and me. It also includes a review of our book Server Component Patterns.
You might check these to find out a bit more about the book.
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2002-11-01: TCPA and Palladium shock
Who knows me, knows that there are not too many things that have the
potential to shock me. But the first time I read the report on TCPA in c't (a german
computer magazine) I indeed was shocked. TCPA seems to have the potential to
change the world (and not to a better version in my opinion). Even if no one NOW wants
to abuse this technology, who knows what will happen in 5-10 years. There lies so much
power within this, everybody should be informed and make up his mind.
So please read about TCPA here:
This is a TCPA FAQ and this points
to a very good slideshow on the same topic including more technical information.
For the german readers, also check out the c't articel
I really think this is one of the most important changes to culture I
can think of. The comparisons to reverse Gutenberg are not to far fetched IMHO.
Giving controll of all Software and content to a few companies (and
maybe only a few countries) will change everything we know. Remember our lives
and society completely depends on information these days. This
might be mankinds worst nightmare.
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2002-10-08: SCP Book in stores soon
Again good news! Markus, Eberhard and I recieved the first
copies of our book. So it should be in stores very soon.
Thanks a lot to all the people out there making this project real!
For more information on the server component book please take a look
at the related book project page.
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2002-10-03: Important News: This site will move!
I am now the proud owner of the domain alegu.de, so this site
will be replaced by www.alegu.de.
Also my new email adress will be
alexander.schmid@alegu.de
or simply alex@alegu.de.
So please update your bookmarks as this location will be removed
sometimes soon.
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2002-08-02: New book in books section
I finished reading "The pragmatic programmer". A brilliant book,
I recomend to read to everybody involved with software development. Take a look
at the books section.
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2002-07-27: New versions of Jay and Jay.Net
I updated Jay and Jay.Net. It contains another performance improvement
and now runs about 40 percent faster on my machine!
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2002-07-20: Source for Jay added
I added the source code for Jay (in the projects section).
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2002-06-04: SCP book gets ISBN
We are getting closer: we've got an ISBN and amazon has listed our book :-)
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2002-05-22: Page now uses CSS
This update was a larger one. I upgraded my homepage to use
CSS. I hope I won't get to much trouble because of this update ;-)
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2002-04-19: Picture of Beany
The book section now has a picture of Beany.
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2002-03-12: Jay ported to .Net
I ported Jay to .Net :-) (this was my first .Net program)
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2002-03-11: Recomended readings
I added the "Books" section, where I recommend books that I think
are worth reading.
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2002-02-27: Signed agile manifesto
I signed the Agile Manifesto, because I deeply believe these
are the principles all software development should be based on.
A lot of things are flawed in software development today. Escpecially
the "engineering" approach is the wrong way for most projects IMHO.
I feel strongly the agile movement will fix a lot.
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2002-02-19: Jay added
Added Jay, a Java realtime raytracer!
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