11 blog reactions to http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SchoolsOfSoftwareDevelopment.html

or already in recession, and we have all the necessary ingredients for a period of deep navel gazing.  My feed reader recently picked up three, and I suspect this is only the beginning.   Martin Fowler's Bliki contains a recent entry on SchoolsOfSoftwareDevelopment which deals with the problem of competing methodologies, and the Habermassian problem of agreeing on a common set of criteria upon which they may be judged. Instead what we see is a situation where there are several schools of software development,

practices WCF Security Guidance - Updated Application Scenarios via J.D. Meier Subbu on Nouns and Resources - Stefan Tilkov links to an excellent “resource” on resource design Martin Fowler on Schools of software development What Integration Competency Centers Do and How to Fund Them - Loraine Lawson GET Requests Updating the Database - via Stefan Tilkov on why it might be ok to modify the system even if its a get operation

Martin Fowler has got a very nice article that takes a look at the evolution of different approaches in software development. He suggests the notion of “software schools” for those, in the same sense as there have always been schools in philosophy and arts.

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arts") där man sällan påstår att någon kampsport är odiskutabelt "bättre" än alla andra, men när man väl valt sin skola så agerar vi som om dess tekniker är de rätta och försöker förfina dem till perfektion. Martin Fowler skrev något liknande häromdagen. För övrigt var en av de praktiker jag lyfte fram att använda rätt verktyg för rätt uppgift och inte bara samma gamla verktyg som man råkar känna till (eller som Microsoft ger dig, som det ofta fungerar i .NET-världen).

post is a quite interesting reading. As Programming Techniques are becoming more and more mature, we should consider to enter in a new arena: instead of bragging each others about what’s the correct way to program, we can jump on the brand new

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