Ziobrando's Lair

Naresh Jain tweeted code reuse being still an unsolved problem within organizations some days ago. This made me think that this is a sy...

I had to spend some time recatoring some classes, working with Eclipse, a couple of days ago. I selected some code inside a long method, and...

I had an interesting conversation with one of my colleagues, a couple of days ago, about the best way to coach the newly hired developers wh...

I finished my last post grunting like an angry old man. Time to stop whining and start proposing something. Ok, here’s what I do. As a rule...

Hmm, I think I should provide a more detailed (boring) explanation on the reasons why the default constructor is in the list of my most hate...

I was looking for inspiration for a short post about the abuse of the parameterless constructor. Then I found this and thought that there’s...

I’ve been caught for a while in the endless debate between strongly typed languages, such as Java, and loosely typed languages, such as Pyth...

Functions were probably the first widely adopted element of software reuse. Developers loved them because functions made them save their own...

A lot of emphasis has been put on the fact that MDA tools could be used to generate pattern code, straight from the model. The one thing tha...