Posted by Leo Soto on January 22nd, 2007.

There are too much areas to make a comparision between languages and web frameworks. We have seen from hard perfomance benchmarks to much more soft happiness…

Posted by Leo Soto on August 2nd, 2007.

Today, a bit of documentation of the Apache WS stack got the attention of many people. Why?. Well, the interface name says all by itself: RequestProcessorFactoryFactory. Then you notice that the…

Posted by Leo Soto on December 8th, 2007.

I’m currently working on a Ruby on Rails web application. I’m happy again because the language doesn’t get on my way while programming. But I’m far from being a seasoned Ruby programmer, so I’ve…

Posted by Leo Soto on September 23rd, 2007.

I’m doing a boring university assignment: a console minesweeper and another game, both written in plain C, without even ncurses (as it will be tested on Windows platform, there is no point on using that anyway). But this…

Posted by Leo Soto on April 22nd, 2007.

A few weeks ago, I had an interesting meeting with the system architect of one of our customers (and a few other people from both…

Posted by Leo Soto on November 15th, 2007.

Here is yet another essay about programmers getting promoted into management. I agree with many things exposed, and disagree with others, but here is something I couldn’t agree more:

Posted by Leo Soto on November 23rd, 2007.

This week Marty touched a sensible spot in his article “Returning None is Evil”, where, aside from what’s obvious from the title, he claims that this behaviour is something popular on the Java mindset.

Posted by Leo Soto on October 3rd, 2007.

I don’t know if it’s common to refer to multi-tier architecture layers by their numbers. I mean something like: “Argh, the date is presented in a reverse format, it must be a layer-one bug”, or “The layer two seems…

Posted by Leo Soto on August 19th, 2007.

Some people misunderstood my last rant as a direct attack against patterns. It’s not. It’s indirect.