tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post1815184339892652840..comments2024-02-17T03:47:06.818-08:00Comments on CraigBlog: The Craftsman SeriesCraig Anderahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084199593129216563noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post-24636859243237623492005-06-21T20:42:00.000-07:002005-06-21T20:42:00.000-07:00You might want to check for "Micah Martin&quo...You might want to check for "Micah Martin" in order to understand the private joke...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post-43327608649008953542004-03-04T07:02:00.000-08:002004-03-04T07:02:00.000-08:00I hadn't read that far. Yes, that is pretty st...I hadn't read that far. Yes, that is pretty stupid. But it's also not unexpected given the source - ivory tower types. <br /><br />Nonetheless, I found it a good example of test-first approach, regardless of your opinion of the particular architecture they chose. <br /><br />Damn, I have to get a good way to find out when someone adds a comment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post-48118479494962696632004-03-03T06:52:00.000-08:002004-03-03T06:52:00.000-08:00I'm intrigued to know what you made of episode...I'm intrigued to know what you made of episode 13 where the aprentice "Micahs his Journeyman." (Aside: a phrase which kind of annoyed me. Possibly if I was as into science fiction books as Robert Martin apparently is I would understand the reference. Or maybe I'm not supposed to. It just seemed kind of pretentious. If he wants to write a sci fi novel, he should just do it... But I digress.)<br /><br />After all the suspense building I was slightly surprised when the journeymen thought (to use the vernacular popular with football [the UK kind, where you move the ball with your foot] coaches over here) that "The boy done good."<br /><br />My first thought when he moved from Jerry's clean, loosely coupled, highly portable text-based network protocol to a distributed object approach was that he'd walked straight into the classic trap: applying OO design techniques across a network boundary. Almost always a mistake. I assumed the apprentice was about to get the public humiliation he so richly deserved. And yet he is lauded for binding both client and server to a Java serialization format. Worse, if you go on to read the later episodes (which are at http://www.sdmagazine.com/columnists/martin/ by the way) he goes on to start sharing inheritance hierarchies across the remoting boundary.<br /><br />I felt they had pretty much lost the plot at this point. Am I alone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post-46874595341828319492004-02-16T01:23:00.000-08:002004-02-16T01:23:00.000-08:00Whoops! Sorry about that. It has been fixed.Whoops! Sorry about that. It has been fixed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post-13095536247875300312004-02-15T23:36:00.000-08:002004-02-15T23:36:00.000-08:00just a little problem with the url there you have ...just a little problem with the url there you have a ']' at the end of it and it shouldn't be there ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com