Battle of the structures

Figure 1 shows a spoiklin class diagram of a well-structured package.                  …

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Interface over-segregation

Programmers easily spot bloated interfaces, and usually carry with them an assortment of, “Knives and stabbing weapons,” for just such…

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Bugs and cracks

Compile-time and run-time villains. Consider the software system on which you currently work. Would you release that system with 31,197…

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Structural simplicity

You’ve all seen Rich Hickey’s excellent Simple-made-easy presentation, in which Mr Hickey trawls the dictionary to remind us that, “Simple,”…

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The structure of Apache Lucene

The inestimably noble Apache Software Foundation produces many of the blockbuster products (Ant, CouchDB, Hadoop, JMeter, Maven, OpenOffice, Subversion, etc.)…

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Software engineering as … engineering.

How do you compare the structure of two different programs? You could fire up your IDE and dive in. A…

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Breaking Bad … interfaces.

A question of efficiency. So, you start working on some code and a monstrous interface snarls back at you, picking…

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Visualizing engineering fields

Civil engineering.                         Mechanical engineering.       Electronic…

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Bad program structure: the complectation

Degrees of badness Many programmers consider source code dependencies either circular or non-circular, with circular dependencies representing The Greatest Imaginable…

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