The Seven Teachings of the Cragg

This week I had the very distinct pleasure of working with Duncan Cragg. He kindly shared his knowledge of the world of software development – the truth is black and white! So here are the Seven Teachings:

• Imperative bad, Declarative good.
• Synchronous bad, Asynchronous good.
• Threads bad, Events good.
• Message Queue bad, Publish Subscribe good.
• OO bad, Logic Programming good.
• SOA bad, REST good.
• Client Server bad, P2P good

If this seems a bit too black and white, you’re advised to have a closer look at Duncan’s excellent blog.

Disclaimer: Duncan was not^H^H^H sitting next to me, when I wrote this.