Archive for October, 2006

.NET: Team Foundation Server and ‘Legacy’ code

Published by
Brendan Lawlor
at October 9, 2006 in .Net and Agile. 0 Comments

It’s a perilous position to be a brand-new Microsoft technology. One day your on top of your game, the next you’re history. Right now, for instance, the very impressive trio of Team Foundation Server, C# and Visual Studio 2005 (Team Edition) are standing tall and proud in front of the Microsoft development community - and rightly so as together they provide a really productive platform. But take a moment to look over their shoulders and you will see the broken figures of com, com+, VB6 and such, looking like Marlon Brando from The Waterfront (”I coulda been a contender!”). Every platform has its elderly and frail characters, but nobody seems to treat their old quite so badly as Microsoft. As far as Team Foundation Server (including TeamBuild) is concerned, these legacy technologies never existed.

Continue reading ‘.NET: Team Foundation Server and ‘Legacy’ code’

Technorati Tags: , ,

Spring 2.0 Debuts in Cork

Published by
Brendan Lawlor
at October 4, 2006 in Agile, IT, Java and Spring. 4 Comments

One year ago, when Rod Johnson addressed Irish Java developers in Cork, he gave us a scoop. Interface21 (the company behind the Springframework) had just acquired Adrian Colyer (the brains behind AspectJ, the main implementation of AOP in Java). It was an intriguing piece of news that seemed to open up a lot of new avenues for the way in which Spring could be used, though of course it was hard to visualize exactly what the outcome of this collaboration would be. Yesterday afternoon, twelve months on, Adrian himself came to Cork to show us exactly what they’ve been doing, and to hand us another scoop.

Continue reading ‘Spring 2.0 Debuts in Cork’

Technorati Tags: , , Interface21, , ,