Objectionary: Dictionary and Factory for EO Objects

Since the time of Kernighan and Ritchie we share binary code in libraries. You need to print some text with…

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Command and Command Handlers (and Why I Don’t Care Much For Them)

Introduction I want to complain about the pattern of using Commands and Command Handlers in this article, but I don’t…

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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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How to Create a Java Web Framework from Scratch, the Right Object-Oriented Way

How do you design a web application in Java? You install Spring, read the manual, create controllers, create some views,…

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Logging Without a Static Logger

How do you organize logging in your applications? I mean web applications or command line apps, or even mobile apps.…

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How Data Visibility Hurts Maintainability

I’ve been writing so much about object-oriented programming and its pitfalls, claiming that most of the design patterns and “good…

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Converting a Cyclic Dependency into a Directed Dependency

So, this came out over a month late… Woops. This is definitely not my original idea in the least. I…

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Fear of Decoupling

Objects talk to each other via their methods. In mainstream programming languages, like Java or C#, an object may have…

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SOLID Is OOP for Dummies

You definitely know the SOLID acronym. It stands for five principles of object-oriented programming that, if followed, are supposed to…

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