Category Archives: Coding

Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software

Just finished watching a Google Tech Talk by Amy Jo Kim of Shuffle Brain, regarding game mechanics in functional software (video embedded below). She has worked as a social architect on for example Rockband, and applying game mechanics on the … Continue reading

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Fast debugging statements

While reading Code Complete 2nd Edition I ran into a chapter which covers defensive programming. Defensive programming includes debugging, but not to any price of course. We don’t want performance of the application to suffer from debugging statements, at least … Continue reading

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JMS and SAP, avoid this combination?

I told a colleague “I’m going to use JMS topics to solve this problem”. His answer was: “SAP in combination with JMS… you don’t want to go there.”. Based on the fact that several SAP applications which use JMS seem … Continue reading

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