May 14

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

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I have a problem: I don’t have enough mp3’s in my laptop. I use to listen music while I’m programing and I’m getting bored of them. So during last 3 or 4 months I’ve been listening music from youtube or last.fm.

Less than a month was enough to me to realize that I was losing too much time every day choosing next song so I tried something longer, I listening conferences and speeches.

Last week I made a post about git which contains a video that I re-watched after some months (Julipedia’s recommendation)

This time I dedicate this post to David and Ferran (DFWiki creators) who are designing and developing the new Moodle API and Webservices.

Here is a YouTube video from a Google TechTalk about designing APIs. Joshua Bloch is the speaker, the Principal Engineer at Google. He also led the design of numerous Java platform features as Java Collections Framework, java.math package and the assert mechanism. This guy knows about what is talking about…..

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May 09

“CVS users are ugly and stupid”

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Here’s a video of Linus Torvalds talking to Google developers about git.

In my opinion it’s not the correct way to make a great advertising campaign:

  1. you can not insult a big sector of developers (cvs and svn users), and potential customers of your software.
  2. you can not say that you have developed the best SCM in the world in 2 weeks… You have an ego problem, Linus.
  3. what a horrible slides….

However, we are going to forgive him for that. He has created Linux, the greatest and biggest Open Source project. If he is using git in this enormous project and works fine, if because he has all the reason and git rules. During his speech, he does a good observation, you don’t need to branch very fast, you to merge very fast.

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