One Hundreth Away from Fame

I read an article on the strength of the Finnish schooling system yesterday.  It’s considered as the best in the world with a 4% variance between the best school and the worst school.  How did they achieve that?  They give a lot of focus on the bottom 99% of kids in the classroom and not the top 1%.

I have a fear that as a community we promote the top 1%.  I hear developers being

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Posted at 1pm on 24/06/09 | 6 comments | Filed Under: Architecture and Development

Great Quotes for Domain Driven Design

I am revisiting the material for the factor10 Domain Driven Design course as part of a “freshen up” for the when I give it to a development team on July 1, 2009.  So I started hunting for some quotes to liven it up a bit.

Here are some choice bites for ubiquitous language.

“They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps” – William Shakespear

and

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action

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Posted at 11am on 22/06/09 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Architecture and Development