OOP

Neutral Format as a Coupling reduction idea that doesn't work.
Ever had a problem of two classes / frameworks/ packages / systems.... that have to be coupled in someway. Info has to pass between the two. So the obvious gets done and one side or the other gets to use a rich fat object from the the other side. And WOW! Oh the PAIN! The two sides are now deeply and horribly ... 20 Feb 2007 00:34

just say NO to inline SQL
frebe wrote: <snip> If LOC remained constant but modularity increased, would that be proof? If LOC was constant and testability increased, would that be proof? If LOC remained constant but portability increased, would that remain constant? The fact that LOC increases if you always h... 21 Feb 2007 11:42

What are the 100 most important patterns for every student to learn?
expanding the post a bit. "Nick Malik [Microsoft]" <nickmalik(a)hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message news:1vidnUC-l_0PR0vYnZ2dnUVZ_hisnZ2d(a)comcast.com... Hi folks, The way I see it, Patterns have two very useful purposes: to educate and to communication. Educate: by learning a pattern, and learnin... 24 Feb 2007 18:54

UML free tools
Hi, I'm rather new to UML and I would like to know which free tools and resources that you could recommend me. I've been looking and searching but, as I'm quite a noob, I really do not know where to start and do not have a reliable criteria to evaluate anything. So I turn to the specialists :-) Cou... 19 Feb 2007 10:59

don't tell don't ask
I'm still struggling with OO concepts. I've read several books and studied various OO languages, but I don't really feel I have a good grasp of the concepts. I like the sound of the "tell, don't ask" model, where networks of objects are asked to perform the work they are responsible for, rather than asking objec... 21 Feb 2007 13:16

Passing a lot of parameters in constructor?
for example, a Person class, I need to create a person using, e.g. Person peter = new Person('Peter', '....) the object creation might involved over 30 parameters, the advantage is this call is atomic, rather than something like, e.g. Person peter = new Person(); peter.setName('Peter'); peter.setBirthPlace(... 20 Feb 2007 09:04

struggling with Design -Paradigms
hai all, 1st of all, thanks for the replies, to my earlier post, and now with your help (the comp.object folks :-) the confusion has gone, i am very clear on my goals but still i have some difficulties. i will be brief: i do understand the meaning of variables,objects,function as i have done some Lisp, so ... 28 Feb 2007 03:30

looking for design patterns of interacting state machine
Hi, I would like to ask if there is design patterns of 2 interacting state machine? I have following scenario in my project: There are 2 state machines A and B. 1. A and a timer control B. 2. B checks some variables when time out. The variables are set by A. 2. A's state change depends on the B's state/s... 26 Mar 2007 05:53

The reality of Topmind (Was: Topic-Organized Object-OrientedProgramming)
To be fair, T puts out an impressive volume of nonsense in a lot of different threads. You can't reasonably expect him to keep track of the nonsense that he said in the past in addition to the nonsense that he's currently saying. I mean, come on! ;-) ggroups(a)bigfoot.com wrote: On Feb 8, 8:49 pm, "topmi... 26 Feb 2007 00:08

The reality of Topmind (Was: Topic-Organized Object-Oriented Programming)
On Feb 8, 8:49 pm, "topmind" <topm...(a)technologist.com> wrote: ggro...(a)bigfoot.com wrote: The first thing I will put on record is your convenient omission of your claim about what the OP wrote. It is therefore fair IMHO to assume that the following is true (as I stated) : you started your... 25 Feb 2007 23:37