Wayne Beaton

Modern development environments bring multiple integrated tools to developers' fingertips. Integration of editors and compilers for multiple languages, database browsers, framework-specific development tools, and more are commonplace and considered by many to be entry-level features: the minimum support required to be taken seriously. But modern development environments miss out when it comes to integrating the most important part: the developer. Bringing multiple tools that work well together with a harmonized look and feel help a software developer be productive. However, as systems built using integrated development environments get more and more complex with larger and larger code bases, just having tools that are easy to find and use isn't enough. Modern developers need a development environment that focuses first class tools on the artifacts that they care ab... (more)

Iterative Development with VisualAge for Java

Son, I tried once, and I failed. The moral of the story is: never try." - Homer Simpson Iterative development is a process of growing software into existence. While the thought of software growing may sound a little strange, that's exactly what happens. As you iterate through the development process, more and more behavior is added to your application. With each new addition, your application gets closer and closer to a finished product. One of the really neat things about building an application iteratively is that it is almost always in a state where it can run. When iterative... (more)