Sunday, December 31, 2006

The Standalone Programmer: Tips from the trenches - The Code Project - Work Issues

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Salvatore Iovene - Common mistakes when approaching OO design

Salvatore Iovene - Common mistakes when approaching OO design: "Today I want to talk about Object Oriented practices, and 3 commonly made mistakes. Very often, when reviewing code written by other people, I find violations of common OO practices, that make the code a lot less maintainable. Here follows a list of the most common ones, and, of course, some explanations about them."

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Saturday, December 16, 2006

CFEclipse Features: Local History

CFEclipse Features: Local History

"Ever open a file you've been working on and spent the first few minutes just trying to remember what changes you made the night before? Or ever wish you could just undo the last few days' changes? In this installment of CFEclipse Features, we will take a look at a feature that allows you to do just that."

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Friday, December 15, 2006

The Daily WTF - Web Development at WTFU

"Ming Shun felt embarrassed. Not for himself, but for someone else ('Gabrielle') in his Introduction to Web Development course. It seemed that, almost every day, Gabrielle would just say something that made everyone grit their teeth and say under their breath, I can't believe she just said that."

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Saturday, December 09, 2006

InfoQ: The Lost Art of Separating Concerns

"The practice of "separating concerns" is a critically important tool for software architects, as it helps us introduce loose coupling where we need it in the systems we design. Unfortunately, it seems we're not as collectively proficient with that practice as we need to be, at least in the context of Web services and SOA."

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