Ryan Tomayko

Doing It Wrong —

Tim Bray on the state of Enterprise tech:

This is unacceptable. The Fortune 1,000 are bleeding money and missing huge opportunities to excel and compete. I’m not going to say that these are low-hanging fruit, because if it were easy to bridge this gap, it’d have been bridged. But the gap is so big, the rewards are so huge, that it’s time for some serious bridge-building investment. I don’t know what my future is right now, but this seems by far the most important thing for my profession to be working on.

That’s what led me to start (the now defunct) lesscode.org almost five years ago. Things actually seem to have come a long way since then, when the idea of using open source, dynamic languages, or web protocols would get you laughed out of the room. That’s not the case anymore.

I’ve given up the idea that advocacy can have an impact, though. Everyone has something to pitch The Enterprise. You get lost in the noise. Useful tech wins eventually.

Enterprise static files —

This reddit comment makes me wish lesscode.org was still around :)

A run-time for “the New Reality” —

“… the ‘new reality’ is the realization that Dynamic Scripting Languages are ready for prime-time and that REST is a simple, yet scalable architecture to build a servers on.” – I’d say that’s definitely a new reality for the enterprise, Bill.

The ESB Question —

This is a scary description of a small chunk of my tech career: “In a previous life, I helped develop ESBs. I’ve written about them and I’ve promoted them. But somewhere along the way, I lost the religion.”

Is anything ready for the enterprise? —

“I would rather take an easily modifiable, open platform that I can make do what I need in a specific environment.”

But Martin, Enterprise Software IS Boring —

A well thought out and respectful response to Fowler’s argument that business software doesn’t have to be boring (RailsConf 2006). Good points abound but I have to disagree with the premise.