object-design Confía en los objetos. Tienen derecho a decidir. "Los verdaderos desarrolladores no usan if". ¿Por qué alguien querría eliminar el if? ¿Qué tiene de malo? Aquí les cuento por qué y cómo lograrlo.
oop Reifying problems in our software: a short story Yet another lesson from a large project with legacy code. Did you happen to see “known issues” in software that you have worked on? And how many times have you seen them “solved” with “quick fixes” or “workarounds”?
oop Classes or Prototypes in Python What would happen if I wanted to play only with objects on Python, using other objects as prototypes? I’m going to show how we can benefit from the meta-programming tools available on Python in order to do that.
oop Collection Filters in Ruby There should be a filter object, and it should be placed between the user and the filtered object. Imagine you are modeling a person using a pair of glasses...
object-design There are null reasons This post will try and maybe fail to convince you that using `null` in your code is an error. For those of you willing to listen, here are my reasons to stop using it.
java Java generics and inheritance (part 2) On the first part of this article I explained why java generics don't allow up-casting for generified types. In this part we will see why, arrays don't have that restriction, and the implications
java Java generics and inheritance (part 1) Types, Sets, variables and casting When you use a compile-time typed language, like Java, you expect that types in each variable will help you by restricting the possibilities for a value. Instead of
object-design Trust in objects. They have the right to decide. "Real devs don't use if". Why would somebody want to eliminate the if clause? What's wrong about it? Here I tell you why and an example on how to do it.
esug-2010 OOSCM: Object Oriented SCM - Beyond files - ESUG 2010 OOSCM (Object Oriented Software Configuration Management) is a tool we are developing to better support traits that are unique to object oriented development. Current SCM tools (CVS,SVN,GIT,Monticello, etc) are file