Agile DNA

The two programming teams in Cincinnati are Team8 and Team32. Team8 is doing a food tracking system. Team32 is doing a photoDepo

The contest rules require at least 12 check-ins. At this point Team34 has 16 check-ins and Team8 has 32.

Tommorow is the first www.RailsDay.com.
A 24-hour contest to code an interesting web application. Cincinnati has 2 teams entered, and we will be coding in public at the Kenwood towers The Towers of Kenwood 8044 Montgomery Rd. Cincinnati, OH

Directions and organizational information are available at: Rails Day Planning

Stop by and visit the coders in action.

The Server Side has an article on when to use code Annotations. Code Annotations are Meta-Data in the code. And the Java community is happy to be getting annotations in Java 5. THe .NET crowd has had them for a while now.

But maybe the emphesis in my title gave away my point. It's Meta-Data. Get it? More Data.

The Object Oriented way to solve the same problem is with objects. Meta-Objects, or Meta-Classes. Java followed .NET down the road of taking the Data-Processing approach.

Annotations may look helpful. And perhaps they are. But they won't solve development problems as cleanly and maintainably as OO could.

We need to look to other languages (like Ruby perhaps) to actually provide Meta-Classes and an Object Oriented approach.

Lean Software Development produces code on an ongoing basis, rather than in long waits and big chucks of deployment. Using xp www.lifeware.ch delivers code into production every working day. This is made possible by Agile processes like Extreme Programming (XP). And by smart technology choices. LifeWare uses Smalltalk.

Another continuous code delivery technology will be demonstrated "On June 4th, Ruby on Rails developers all over the globe will have 24 hours to build the best application they can."

See what is possible by tuning in or participating http://railsday.com/