Carlo Pescio

I can barely remember the days when objects were seen like a new, shiny, promising technology. Today, objects are often positioned between...

We used to be taught that, by spending enough time thinking about a problem, we would come up with a "perfect" model, one that e...

A week ago or so, Ralf Westphal published yet another critique of my post on living without a controller . He also proposed a different des...

So, this is not, strictly speaking, the next post to the previous post. Along the road, I realized I was using a certain style in the littl...

When we interact with the physical world, we develop an intuitive understanding of some physical forces. It does not take a PhD in physics t...

This post should have been about power law distribution of class / method sizes, organic growth of software and living organisms, Alexandr...

In my most popular post ever , I argued (quoting Alan Kay and Peter Coad along the way) that classes ending in –er (like the infamous Contro...

I've been absent for a few months now. The thing is, I'm spending my little free time writing a non-trivial Android app. Of course, ...

We're all familiar with this scene: the good guys trying to save the day (or the world) by defusing a bomb. Quickly running out of time,...

In my previous post on this series, I used the well-known Shape problem to explain polymorphism from the entanglement perspective. We'v...

Sometimes, my clients ask me what to read about software design. Most often than not, they don't want a list of books – many already hav...

An old rule in software project management (also known as the Project triangle is that you can have a system that: - has low development ...

We have a long history of manipulating physical materials. Cavemen built primitive tools out of rocks and sticks. I would speculate :-) that...

Mechanical devices require maintenance, some more than others. Maintenance is intended to keep them working, because mechanical parts tend t...

Joe is a junior programmer in the IT department of SomeLargeCompany, Inc. His company is not in the business of software; however, they have...