PyVideo.org - Fredrik Håård

Minimalism in software development, or why you should do less

2012-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Summary

[EuroPython 2012] Fredrik Haard - 5 JULY 2012 in "Track Lasagne"

Description

Lean and agile promises - when implemented right - to reduce the pain of process and management overhead. As agile proponents say (the better of them at least), this does not actually solve all our problems, it merely lets us see them clearer. And one thing that we can see clear once management overhead goes down, is that we are perfectly able to create our own, technical, overhead. Developer culture and a tendency of solving problems ‘the usual way’ can - and does - create complicated solutions to simple problems, and regularly leaves us in configuration hell. This is a talk about frameworks and API:s, programming languages and data storage, and why we - developers - spend a large amount of time not creating value. Even if we have the most perfect of agile implementations with zero process overhead (yeah, right!), we still waste time in development, and its all our own fault. I will discuss what we spend our time on, why any framework should be approached with trepidation, and how we can do better than keep repeating the mistakes of yesteryear.

User to framework author in four hours - Part 1

2013-07-03T00:00:00+00:00

User to framework author in four hours - Part 2

2013-07-03T00:00:00+00:00

Jython in practice

2014-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

Summary

A lot of people have heard of Jython, some have tried it, but it seems few have actually deployed it in a corporate environment. In this talk I'll share my experiences in using Jython as a testbed for Java applications, for rapid prototyping in Java desktop and web environments, and for embedding scripting capabilities in Java products.

Description

Not everyone gets paid to work with Python all the time, but if you find yourself in a Java project, there are good chances you could benefit from Python without throwing out the Java stack. Using Jython, you can do rapid prototyping without the long edit-compile-test cycles normally associated with large Java projects, whether on the web or the desktop, and when testing an application might become a nightmare of scaffolding in Java, a little Jython may be just what you need to be able to run your tests smoothly.

At the end of this talk, I will put on my politician´s hat and bring up the best - and worst - arguments to use to get permission to use Jython in a corporate environment.