http://metamathic.com/press Repository of Thought Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:43:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post is about domain specific languages or DSLs, and their classification based on their implementation techniques. Martin Fowler's work-in-progress DSL book states two major kinds of DSL types - internal and external DSLs. Internal DSLs require no parser to be implemented, the language is implemented inside the host language, using ... http://metamathic.com/press/?p=23 Here is the list of quality attributes that an enterprise software must have, so it can be called "enterprise software". The real enterprise software must be: slow - if the software doesn't do heavy data processing, using all the "industry standard" enterprise technologies (that are also slow, complex and expensive, so ... http://metamathic.com/press/?p=11 I started writing a response to the Sven's comment on the previous post and the comment got too big so I'll post this as a separate post. The problems of a big team can't be solved with with "superior leads". Those large teams need to make their important irreversible decisions in ... http://metamathic.com/press/?p=9 There has been many discussions about the most effective team size to have for a software project. The most common understanding among the agilists is that teams should have no more than 7 members. Mostly, it has been said, that the main reasons of choosing that kind of team size ... http://metamathic.com/press/?p=8 More than a week ago I received a phone call. The audio quality was low. The caller had her voice so overamplified that it sounded extremely distorted, just like small cheap chinese radio with volume pumped up to the maximum. Besides that, the caller-lady was a native russian and tried ... http://metamathic.com/press/?p=6 I have been lately working on projects that operate with the domains that have subtle view on time. This means that many concepts modelled in that domain need to have a history or some groups of concepts are constantly evolving over time and other dependant concepts need to reference some ... http://metamathic.com/press/?p=4 Welcome, reader! I'm Mart Karu, software developer/architect from Tallinn, Estonia and this site will contain articles on the various sub-areas of software development. http://metamathic.com/press/?p=3