City LifeCity LifeI Believe- March 24, 2008 This is on the masthead of Below The Beltway (a news blog that I have read exactly once, so I can endorse only this sentiment):"I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in."Yeah, me too!http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/i_believe OOP and Algorithms- March 14, 2008 Some OOP practitioners seem to have painted themselves into a corner from which they can hardly admit the existence of algorithms. If all objects are domain objects and all states hidden in domain classes, there can arise an almost puritanical resistance to discussing classes that are applicable across domains, much less behaviors applicable across classes. For example, some Java developers will not allow a collection class as a method argument or result because a collection is not a domain...http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/oop_and_algorithms Viva l'Espresso- March 12, 2008 My thanks to Antonio Petrelli for pointing out the flaw in my comparison of American supermarket coffee to American boutique coffee. It's like comparing American supermarket croissant to American bakery croissant. Can there be a winnerMy wife beat Antonio to the punch. When I told her the gist of my blog post, she immediately replied, "What about espresso" I feebly replied that espresso is a special case. But in fact, espresso demolishes my entire thesis.Except for the part about a...http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/viva_l_espresso |