Posts Tagged ‘ it-agile-blog-planet ’

The it-agile Startup March: Lessons learned

This last month six colleagues and I carried out a little experiment: the ‘Startup March‘. We decided that instead of doing development, training, and consulting for our customers, we would dedicate all of our time to work on an idea for a startup. We wanted to put the ‘Lean Startup’  method, as made popular by Eric Ries’ [ READ MORE ]

Lean startup language design

At a recent hackathon I was noodling around with Dart. I thought, it was great that Google made it particularly easy to start playing with their new language by putting an interactive shell – the Dartboard – on its home page. No download, no installation, instant coding. Very nice. On the other hand they made [ READ MORE ]

Kotlin and Ceylon to open their doors by the end of the year

The residents of Java are waiting. Waiting for the day when another city will rise to supremacy in JVMland. These days they are looking north towards the functional territories and watch with interest as the new cities Kotlin and Ceylon are being built. Many Java inhabitants are tired of the city they live in. Not just since [ READ MORE ]

The functional breakthrough … the back door

Ever since my first encounter with Haskell in my very first week at university I have been waiting for functional programming to become more widely spread and to find acceptance in the industry. Still… waiting… Playing around with Scala these days, I have come as close as ever to use functional programming for something non-academic. [ READ MORE ]

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