New Metric: the Distance of Coupling

Encapsulation, as you know, is one of the four key principles in object-oriented programming. Encapsulation, according to Grady Booch et…

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Open Source Etiquette

Here is a short list of common courtesy rules for open source software development. Actually, they apply elsewhere also, but…

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Veil Objects to Replace DTOs

Here is a new idea I discovered just a few days ago while working with Codexia, a Ruby web app.…

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EO the Career Killer

It’s time to answer one of the most popular questions I hear from junior programmers when they meet me at…

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Prefixed Naming

If you look at the source code of Takes or Cactoos for the first time, you most probably, like many…

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Fat vs. Skinny Design

It seems that type/class hierarchies in OOP may be designed in two extreme ways: either with full encapsulation of data…

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Object Cohesion: Why It Matters

You most probably know about Elegant Objects (EO), an alternative object-oriented paradigm, which claims that objects must be immutable, have…

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Embrace the Chaos!

Being just yet another software developer in a large enterprise is a pain. You are surrounded by legacy code, inconsistent…

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Does Code Review Involve Testing?

When you review a pull/merge request from someone, do you check out the branch and run the build? I usually…

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