Robert C. Martin's WeblogArtima Weblogs is a community of bloggers posting on a wide range of topics of interest to software developers.YAGNI- (Found July 2, 2008 ) There's a lot of emotional reaction and baggage surrounding this controvertial saying. And yet it's synonymous with the old KISS principle. Keep It Simple Stupid.http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=36529 Modelling the real world.- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The concept of modeling the real world has been so badly abused in the OO community, that I want to find the person who first coined the notion and flay him alive. (not really.)http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=37870 The Tortoise and the Hare- (Found July 2, 2008 ) In software the race goes to those who go well, not those who go fast.http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=51769 Differentiation through Obfuscation- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Every software vendor needs to convince you that their product is _different_ from all the others. Unfortunately, one of the most common strategies for differentiation is obfuscation.http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=59084 Any Idiot.- (Found July 2, 2008 ) It doesn't take much brains to build a virus. What takes brains is building software that other people want to buy.http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=5170 |