Cyrille Martraire

Small details matter because you deal with them often. Any enhancement you make thus yields a benefit often, hence a bigger overall benefit. In other words: invest small care, get big return. This is an irresistible proposal!
Examples of small design-level details that I care about because I have experienced great payback from them:

Using Value Objects [...]

Information hiding is one of the very essential principles of object orientation. If you dont know it well, I suggest you take a look at it on the Web, e-g at UncleBob.
But information hiding is much more than just putting data private through accessors to protect them, it is especially a great tool to manage [...]

In a recent project I was asked to parse massive XML document from a third party provider. We had two problems: the xml document definition was very massive, with about 120 groups of different elements, leading to a total of around 1500 different elements to parse into java objects. The other problem was that our [...]