oop Collection Filters in Ruby Note: acknowledgements (and thanks!) to Máximo Prieto (our OOP guru) who had this idea and he implemented it on Smalltalk. The problem We want to have a collection that filters its elements as
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
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object-design Trust in objects. They have the right to decide. "Real devs don't use if." This slogan was my first contact with 10Pines, way before starting my apprenticeship residence. The first time I heard that sentence, it really got stuck in my head. Why would somebody want to eliminate the `if` clause? What was wrong about 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