OOP

Relational-to-OOP Tax
"topmind" <topmind(a)technologist.com> writes: Patrick May wrote: If you can't prove it, retract it and stop making such claims. I am not implying that something is better. Yes, you are. You clearly stated in the post that started this subthread that "If you embraced the DB in... 7 Mar 2007 11:31

"OOP is Dead" article
http://kawagner.blogspot.com/2006/08/oop-is-dead.html The article complains about polymorphism's narrow dispatching capability and suggests functional programming has a better angle on that because it can use as many parameters as you want for dispatching (predicate dispatching). I had this to say about it i... 20 Feb 2007 11:10

Specification Pattern vs Data Mapper
Hello! I find myself using specification pattern a lot lately, but in a foreseaable future I will run in to following problem: I'm using repositories as a way to abstract data access logic from my model/domain code. There are simple methods defined on a repository such as: GetAll, Add etc. There is also one ad... 9 Feb 2007 06:00

UML Activity Diagram - 1 Activity across 2 or more swimlanes
How can I model an activity "executed" by 2 different actors that are represented by 2 different swimlanes ? I mean actors from different swimlanes are working together on that activity. Magicdraw does not allow to create an Activity across two swimlanes Any advice ? ... 1 Feb 2007 02:07

clean code vs dirty code smack down! (was: Simples Rules make creating Big Balls of Mud impossible.)
AndyW <a(a)b.no.email> wrote: "Daniel T." <daniel_t(a)earthlink.net> wrote: Robert Martin <unclebob(a)objectmentor.com> wrote: Bad coded is always more expensive than clean code; and so is always the loser. Until we all accept this, our profession will never climb out of the hacker status i... 31 Jan 2007 09:07

Wrapping SQL (Was: Critique of Robert C. Martin's...)
Robert Martin wrote: On 2007-01-25 22:53:48 -0600, "topmind" <topmind(a)technologist.com> said: Robert Martin wrote: On 2007-01-24 01:35:40 -0600, frebe73(a)gmail.com said: Consider this: Select employee_number from employee where date_of_birth < 1952 and sex = F and emp... 1 Feb 2007 02:38

English to UML
Hi: EnglishToUML is analysis and desgin tool for UML class models. It builds class models using easy access facts identified from requirements specs. It has text editor to edit and analyze facts. Easy access facts lead to better focus and communication among business analysts, data modelers, software enginee... 26 Jan 2007 11:57

TIBCO products
I'd like to know what are their most interesting products. I just downloaded the BusinessWork brochure, the product seems to do almost everything (:-) but then il looks somehow another hype on SOA ... Any info on really used products / projects ? Thankyou ... 27 Jan 2007 12:43

hello to everyone
I wanted to say hello to all people I interacted long time ago on this newsgroup. Sorry to pollute the context. Hail to Robert Martin, H.S. Lahman, S. Perryman, Daniel T., Dmitry Kazakov, Peter Douglass, and other people I missed. Regards, Cagdas Ozgenc ... 5 Feb 2007 05:48

Do we need a guild?
On 2007-01-20 11:03:08 -0600, "Daniel T." <daniel_t(a)earthlink.net> said: Do we need some kind of professional organization, or guild to differentiate the professionals from the non-professionals? Lawyers found they needed one. Doctors too. I've not been a fan of this idea in the past, but perhaps t... 29 Jan 2007 02:24