Carlo Pescio

Design is about making choices. We often do so on the fly, leaning on experience and intuition, by talking about the problem with colleagues...

In the past few weeks I've taken a little time to write down more about the concept of frequency; while doing so, I realized I had to ex...

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

Gravity, as we have seen, provides a least resistance path, leading to monolithic software. If gravity was the only force at play, all softw...

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 thought I could discuss the whole concept of Gravity and its implications in 2 or 3 (long) posts. While writing, I realized I'll need ...

Mass is a simple concept, which is better understood by comparison . For instance, a long function has bigger mass than a short one. A clas...

In a previous post , I discussed Alexander’s theory of Centers from a software design perspective. My (current) theory is that a Center is (...

What is a center in software? Although I gave the subject some serious thinking, my answer is quite simple; in fact, we knew it all along. ...

I’ve been facing some small, tough design problems lately: relatively simple cases where finding a good solution is surprisingly hard. As us...

Warning: :-) this post is going to be somehow conceptual. I'll soon move to some real-world, software-based example, but I really need t...

Aspect-oriented programming is still largely code-centric. This is not surprising, as OOP went through the same process: early emphasis was ...

Note: I began tinkering with this idea several months ago, inspired by some design work I was doing on a real-world project. Initially, I th...

I've been using metrics for a long time (certainly more than 10 years now). I've been using metrics to control project quality (incl...

In the Notes , Alexander defines form in a rather unique and interesting way: "The form is the part of the world over which we have co...

In my previous post, On the concept of Form (1) , I mentioned how Architecture is providing viscosity , and therefore playing the role Alexa...

I was learning about EPOC (Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption) a few weeks ago, for no particular reason (as I often do :-). If you ev...

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...

The past two weeks have been hectic to say the least, and I had no time to conclude this quadrilogy. Fear not :-), however, because here I a...