Slimmed Down Software- A Lean, Groovy Approach Part 5 - Deliver Fast

"It is clear and logical that developing features in small increments means you deliver sooner, and there is value in that. Delivering a partial system on an earlier calendar date means the customer starts accruing a return on investment before project completion, and this can even result in the system paying for itself before the project is even finished. But will delivering smaller increments really increase your output in the long term? The answer from queuing theory research is a resounding "yes"...

Part 5 of Slimmed Down Software is now available on the Canoo Blog. To read the entire article please surf on over there. And if you want to be kind then upvote at DZone.

This article originally appeared in the August 2010 edition of GroovyMag, the Groovy and Grails magazine. Parts 6 and 7 are currently available for download from the magazine’s site, and more will come each month. Previous articles in this series are on the Canoo website: Part 1: Eliminate Waste, Part 2: Build Quality In, Part 3: Create Knowledge, and Part 4: Defer Commitment. Lastly, if you like this, you may want to check out some of my older blog posts from my personal site under the ‘craft’ category. Enjoy!

Speaking at Devoxx

Good news for me, I'll be giving a 15-minute quickie at Devoxx on the topic of Groovy Code Generation. The talk is normally a little longer, but most talks can be improved by making them shorter. I'm sure the 15 minutes will be great fun. Check out the slides for the longer version here.

If you can't make Devoxx, then be sure to catch fellow Canooie Dierk König at W-JAX during the same time. His slots are all in German, but the code samples will surely be in Groovy.

For those interested here is the abstract for my talk. If you run or help organize a JUG and want a speaker then please contact me. I'm excited to travel around in 2011, see more of the world, and meet great people.

Code Generation on the JVM: Writing Code that Writes Code
"The Pragmatic Programmer" admonished us all to "write code that writes code": use code generators to increase productivity and avoid duplication. Today's language communities have clearly caught on, as more and more frameworks generate code at compile time: AST Transforms, Project Lombok, Spring Roo, and more.

This session reviews these approaches including examples of how and why we'd want to do this. Come see the newest Groovy language tools, look in-depth at production deployed AST Transforms, and view libraries based on these techniques.

Audience: developers searching for cutting edge solutions to increasing team velocity.

IntelliJ IDEA Shortcut Wallpaper

The fastest developers use the keyboard almost exclusively. To help you learn the IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts, I created a desktop wallpaper that lists the most common ones for Linux, Mac and Windows users. Can't remember the command? Just pop up the desktop and check it out. Bored while waiting for a compile? Ditto.


There are a few resolutions:

IntelliJ IDEA Linux/Windows 1440x900
IntelliJ IDEA Macintosh 1440x900
IntelliJ IDEA Linux/Windows 1680x1050
IntelliJ IDEA Macintosh 1680x1050
IntelliJ IDEA Linux/Windows 1920x1200
IntelliJ IDEA Macintosh 1920x1200


Not on IDEA? You can download the Eclipse Desktop wallpaper from us, or the vim quick reference from our friend Ted Naleid.

doce ut discas - Teach, that you yourself may learn.

Eclipse Keyboard Shortcut Wallpaper

The fastest developers use the keyboard almost exclusively. To help you (and me) learn the Eclipse shortcuts, I created a desktop wallpaper that lists the most common ones for Linux, Macintosh and Windows users. Can't remember the command? Just pop up the desktop and check it out. Bored while waiting for a compile? Ditto.

There are a few resolutions:

Eclipse Linux/Windows 1280x1024
Eclipse Linux/Windows 1440x900
Eclipse Linux/Windows 1680x1050
Eclipse Linux/Windows 1920x1080


Not on Eclipse? You can download the IntelliJ IDEA wallpaper from us, or the vim quick reference from our friend Ted Naleid.

doce ut discas - Teach, that you yourself may learn.