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http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/1/myth-eric-brewer-on-why-banks-are-base-not-acid-availability.html Not sure how EHR fits this yet.

http://www.james-vandyne.com/3-dry-techniques-for-maintainable-ajax/ http://franciscomsferreira.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-write-maintainable-javascript-or.html Or factor in Backbone.

Why feature toggle.  http://jaxenter.com/the-lean-startup-for-enterprise-java-developers-peter-bell-47624.html

Why work in process is bad.     stop-starting-start-finishing

Many organizations get vertical and horizontal confused. Their 'verticals' cross-cut the vertical stack and are really 'horizontals'.        scrum-teams-vs-traditionally-organized-teams

Here's a script from the Groovy book that explains expandos and makes some sense of why you might want to mess with spinning up methods at runtime. -  http://groovy.codehaus.org/ExpandoMetaClass+-+Dynamic+Method+Names The first example might help you pull off some interactive UI. The second lends to a more fluid api.  Run that in your console and smoke it. import org.springframework.web.util.HtmlUtils class HTMLCodec {     static encode = { theTarget ->         HtmlUtils.htmlEscape(theTarget.toString())     }     static decode = { theTarget ->     HtmlUtils.htmlUnescape(theTarget.toString())     } } //So what we do with these classes is to evaluate the convention and add  //"encodeAsXXX" methods to every object based on the first part of the  //name of the codec class such as "encodeAsHTML". The pseudo code to achieve this is below: def classes = [HTMLCode...

For the developer masses stuck on the newer flavors of Windows - npackd shows some promise. An apt-get like interface for installing/tracking typical tools on your workstation.  Silently, checks SHA1 and tracks versions for easy update/rollback.  Repository is growing. Finds already installed packages and can scan for additional.