Tag Archive 'language'

Now that enterprises have chosen stable platforms (JVM and .Net), on top of which we can choose a syntax out of many available, which language will you pick up as your next favourite?
New languages to have a look at (my own selection)
Based on what I read everyday in various blogs, I arbitrarily reduced the list [...]

Patterns express intents

Patterns represent a couple (intent, solution); sometime they refer to a solution, more often they essentially represents an intent, independently of its solution.
Sometimes the solution part of patterns includes a trick or a workaround to overcome the limits of a language, but patterns cannot be reduced to that trick. Indeed, a very important role of [...]

With Object-Oriented programming we often have many classes, therefore it is really important to name them well.
It’s amazing how I can spend so much time searching for good names for classes, and I do think it is worth doing it well, after all naming is all about making the code easy to read and to [...]

I recently taught design pattern to 20 of my co-workers in a kind of training session, here are some thoughts I had while preparing this presentation…
In OO you usually end up with many classes, especially when you correctly use design patterns; each class is also generally very simple and rather short. Thus classes are now [...]