Carlo Pescio

Since microblogging is not my thing , I decided to start 2010 by writing my longer post ever :-). It will start with a light review of a wel...

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

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...