Field notes on software architecture, AI agents, engineering judgment, and building systems that must survive production.https://digows.com/enhttps://digows.com/en/2026/08/04/the-next-generation-of-software-engineering-wont-happen-inside-a-chat/https://digows.com/en/2026/08/04/the-next-generation-of-software-engineering-wont-happen-inside-a-chat/Code generation is abundant. Durable intent, responsibility, review, evidence, and release authority are not—and a chat cannot hold them together on its own.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:27:15 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2026/07/15/i-spent-hours-specifying-a-feature-with-agents-and-changed-the-requirement/https://digows.com/en/2026/07/15/i-spent-hours-specifying-a-feature-with-agents-and-changed-the-requirement/A practical way to use coding agents as specification interviewers, expose consequential unknowns, and change bad decisions before they become code.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2026/07/13/how-i-migrated-wordpress-to-a-static-site-with-agents/https://digows.com/en/2026/07/13/how-i-migrated-wordpress-to-a-static-site-with-agents/How I replaced WordPress with static pages, a simple agent-assisted editorial workflow, and a few focused Cloudflare services.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:00:01 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2026/05/20/the-high-individual-contributor-in-the-age-of-ai-agents/https://digows.com/en/2026/05/20/the-high-individual-contributor-in-the-age-of-ai-agents/How senior individual contributors can use AI agents to expand execution capacity while retaining judgment, ownership, and system-level thinking.Wed, 20 May 2026 02:40:00 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2025/09/02/the-ifless-principle-designing-apis-without-hidden-decisions/https://digows.com/en/2025/09/02/the-ifless-principle-designing-apis-without-hidden-decisions/A practical API design principle: replace methods that hide branching decisions with explicit operations that clarify intent, behavior, and tests.Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:44:38 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2025/08/27/nine-women-cant-make-one-baby-why-smaller-software-teams-deliver-more/https://digows.com/en/2025/08/27/nine-women-cant-make-one-baby-why-smaller-software-teams-deliver-more/Why adding developers can delay complex software projects—and how small, focused teams reduce coordination costs and preserve ownership.Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:23:11 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2010/09/06/integrating-flex-with-java-using-blazeds-in-java-magazine-72/https://digows.com/en/2010/09/06/integrating-flex-with-java-using-blazeds-in-java-magazine-72/Announcement of a practical article on integrating Adobe Flex and Java through BlazeDS services, published in Java Magazine 72.Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:10:27 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2009/05/29/quality-interfaces-with-flex-in-java-magazine-68/https://digows.com/en/2009/05/29/quality-interfaces-with-flex-in-java-magazine-68/Announcement of an article on ActionScript, Java, data consumption, and Flex applications for web and desktop in Java Magazine 68.Fri, 29 May 2009 22:31:15 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2009/01/13/flex-a-simple-chat-in-fewer-than-20-lines/https://digows.com/en/2009/01/13/flex-a-simple-chat-in-fewer-than-20-lines/A historical messaging tutorial with Adobe Flex and BlazeDS; part of the original source code was missing from the WordPress export.Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:18:44 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2008/04/13/why-flex-why-air/https://digows.com/en/2008/04/13/why-flex-why-air/A historical selection of lighthearted videos about Adobe Flex and AIR, originally published in April 2008.Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:44:27 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2008/03/16/flex-brazil-manifesto/https://digows.com/en/2008/03/16/flex-brazil-manifesto/A catalog of Rodrigo Fraga's technical contributions to the Brazilian Adobe Flex community through March 2008.Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:57:00 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2008/01/27/integrating-flex-blazeds-spring-and-hibernate-part-2/https://digows.com/en/2008/01/27/integrating-flex-blazeds-spring-and-hibernate-part-2/Part two: Spring-managed services, a BlazeDS bean factory, declarative transactions, and Hibernate persistence.Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:00:09 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2008/01/21/integrating-flex-blazeds-spring-and-hibernate-part-1/https://digows.com/en/2008/01/21/integrating-flex-blazeds-spring-and-hibernate-part-1/Part one of a historical open-source web architecture tutorial using Adobe Flex, BlazeDS, Spring Framework, and Hibernate.Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:00:22 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2008/01/16/an-adobe-flex-forum/https://digows.com/en/2008/01/16/an-adobe-flex-forum/The 2008 announcement of FlexBrasil, a phpBB forum created for beginners and professionals in the Adobe Flex community.Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:50:36 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2008/01/11/criticism-through-comedy/https://digows.com/en/2008/01/11/criticism-through-comedy/A short 2008 recommendation of a comedy video discovered on the former AtomFilms service.Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:51:41 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2008/01/03/architecture-with-adobe-flex-php-and-zend-framework/https://digows.com/en/2008/01/03/architecture-with-adobe-flex-php-and-zend-framework/A layered contact-form example using Flex, PHP, Zend Framework, and AMFPHP with explicit data-transfer objects.Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:07:25 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/30/i-can-still-play-counter-strike/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/30/i-can-still-play-counter-strike/A lighthearted 2007 record of returning to Counter-Strike after two years away from the game.Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:58:34 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/29/working-with-css-in-adobe-flex-builder-3/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/29/working-with-css-in-adobe-flex-builder-3/A historical tutorial on creating, applying, and visually editing CSS styles in Adobe Flex Builder 3 projects.Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:36:30 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/28/launching-my-labs/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/28/launching-my-labs/A 2007 announcement of an experimental area for web prototypes and projects; the original addresses are no longer available.Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:35:32 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/20/adobe-celebrates-25-years-of-innovation/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/20/adobe-celebrates-25-years-of-innovation/A record of Adobe's 25th anniversary in 2007 and the history video and timeline published by the company.Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:28:34 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/20/adobe-flex-standardizing-your-code/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/20/adobe-flex-standardizing-your-code/Historical references and 2007 recommendations for code conventions in Adobe Flex and ActionScript projects.Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:43:42 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/19/adobe-flash-player-with-google-toolbar/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/19/adobe-flash-player-with-google-toolbar/A 2007 observation about the optional Google Toolbar offer in the Adobe Flash Player installer for Windows.Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:32:39 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/18/modularizing-applications-with-modules-and-flex-builder-3/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/18/modularizing-applications-with-modules-and-flex-builder-3/How large Adobe Flex applications used on-demand modules configured and loaded through Flex Builder 3.Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:57:06 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/17/uploading-files-with-flex-php-and-java/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/17/uploading-files-with-flex-php-and-java/A historical file-upload example in Adobe Flex using FileReference, with server-side destinations in PHP and Java.Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:34:31 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/17/publishing-code-in-wordpress-2-3-1/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/17/publishing-code-in-wordpress-2-3-1/A 2007 record of configuring syntax highlighting in WordPress 2.3.1 with the iG:Syntax Hiliter plugin.Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:50:51 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/12/13/hello-everyone/https://digows.com/en/2007/12/13/hello-everyone/The short welcome message that marked the launch of this version of the blog in December 2007.Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:38:21 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/11/16/how-was-adobe-flex-doing-in-brazil-in-2007/https://digows.com/en/2007/11/16/how-was-adobe-flex-doing-in-brazil-in-2007/The announcement of FlexCenso, an initiative created to map the Adobe Flex developer community and job market in Brazil.Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:20:00 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/09/26/a-bug-in-google/https://digows.com/en/2007/09/26/a-bug-in-google/A curiosity found in 2007 while searching Google for unusual number sequences and comparing the results it returned.Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:37:00 GMThttps://digows.com/en/2007/07/10/how-to-present-adobe-flex-to-your-team/https://digows.com/en/2007/07/10/how-to-present-adobe-flex-to-your-team/Historical arguments, originally written in 2007, for adopting Adobe Flex 2 in rich web applications for the enterprise.Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:15:00 GMT