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Code Ownership – Who Should Own the Code?
A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be divided up: who is going to work on what code; how much work can be, and ...
Debuggers are for Losers
Code defects are not planned; they are accidents that result from an inability to understand execution flow under different input conditions. But just as airbags are the last line ...
Polymorphism and Inheritance are Independent of Each Other
Flexible programs focus on polymorphism and not inheritance. Some languages focus on static type checking (C++, Java, C#) which links the concepts and reduces polymorphic opportunities. ...
The Art of War: How it Applies to Software
Sun Tzu wrote: War is of vital importance to the state; hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected In our modern world, software is of vital importance to ...
A Theorical Look into Object/Resource Pool Pattern
Definition: Sometimes our software projects need costly object creations (database connections, socket connections, large graphical objects etc.). This cost may be about time and/or ...
How many classes and packages should you have?
Real world experience. Once upon a time there lived a family of programming bears. Each morning mammy bear, daddy bear and baby bear would rise and eat breakfast together in their secluded ...
What is Big Data – Theory to Implementation
What is Big Data? You may ask; and more importantly why it is the latest trend in nearly every business domain? Is it just a hype or its here to stay? As a matter of fact “Big Data” ...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing – Cloud computing pros and cons
Introduction Cloud computing refers to the use of computing resources, those being hardware and/or software) that reside on a remote machine and are delivered to the end user as a service ...
Going Dawkins on god objects
Meet the enemy. Steaming stinking jungle crushing all about you, insects infesting the air, strange grunts shuddering in the foliage, you pause deep in uncharted refactoring, far from ...
Architecture-Breaking Bugs – when a Dreamliner becomes a Nightmare
The history of computer systems is also the history of bugs, including epic, disastrous bugs that have caused millions of $ in damage and destruction and even death, as well as many ...
