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

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

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

A few days ago, I've spent some time reading a critic of AOP ( The Paradoxical Success of Aspect-Oriented Programming by Friedrich Stei...

I was teaching Object Oriented Design past week, and I mentioned the interplay between form and function (form follows function; function fo...

The Design Rationale Diagram I discussed in my previous post is hardly complete, and it could be vastly improved by asking slightly differen...

In my previous post, I used the expression "fighting the forcefield". This might be a somewhat uncommon terminology, but I used it...

In my previous posts, I described gravity and inertia. At first, gravity may seem to have a negative connotation, like a force we constantly...

I postponed writing on Form (vs. Function) for a while now, mostly because I was struggling to impose a rational structure on my thoughts. F...

Multicore CPU are now widely available, yet many applications are not tapping into their true potential. Sure, web applications, and more ge...