OOPSLA 2007 Content on InfoQ

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Guy Steele on Programming Languages by Guy Steele Posted on Jul 30, 2008 Sun Fellow Guy Steele is interviewed by Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, and Bobby Norton of ThoughtWorks. Guy works for the Programming Language Research Group. The interview focuses on programming languages, the lessons to be learned from the past and what to expect from the future.

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Markus Voelter about Software Architecture Documentation by Markus Voelter Posted on May 05, 2008 During OOPSLA 2007, InfoQ interviewed Markus Voelter asking him about creating software architecture documentation. Many people mention UML when they are asked about software design documentation, but Markus has a different take on that. He thinks that we should be using models which can be processed with tools which can validate or invalidate them.

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Smalltalk Dave about Programming Languages, SOA, MDA and the Web by Dave Thomas Posted on Apr 25, 2008 In an interview at OOPSLA, Dave Thomas talks about the reasons for the rise of Java, what's behind Web 2.0, MDA and SOA, the rise of dynamic languages and the opportunities that he sees in the web as a platform.

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Michael Stal on Architecture Refactoring by Michael Stal Posted on Mar 25, 2008 In this interview from OOPSLA 2007, Michael Stal talks about architecture refactoring. He describes what architecture refactoring is, its relationship to code refactoring and patterns, and he gives real world examples of how architecture refactorings have been done and when not to do it.

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Kent Beck on Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck Posted on Jan 25, 2008 Kent Beck is interviewed at OOPSLA 2007 about his new book, "Implementation patterns", the relationship between these patterns and XP, problems when adopting agile and the current status of design patterns.