Sessions at Strange Loop 2011 about Software Development on Tuesday 20th September

Best practices come and go. Ideas that were considered indisputable, dogmas, sometimes fall out of favor, even becoming heresies. Let’s look at four ideas from the history of software development, ideas that have gone in and out of favor (at least in some circles), from dogma to heresy. Has our understanding what is “good” changed? Has the nature of today’s work influenced our thinking? What general lessons can we learn from these examples?

The four examples are:
1. Design Then Code.
2. Design Patterns.
3. Corba vs. REST.
4. Object Middleware and ORMs.