Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm is an intuitive and widely accepted strategy in UI design, be it web or rich client. In fact it is so well established as a de-facto standard, that "compliance ...

The Java language and framework make robust applications easier to create, while reducing development time. But runtime performance depends on the underlying JVM. The software approach works almost ...

For Java EE applications based on type-dependent algorithms, a domain-driven design that leverages object-orientation is better than a procedurally implemented service-oriented architecture. Adam Bien ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if all Java classes that you use, including your own, lived up to their promises? In fact, wouldn’t it be nice if you actually knew exactly what a given class promises? If you ...

As expected, my article on “Embedded C Bashing” generated some discussion. So, I thought I better call in some experts to provide advice when it comes to safety and performance. The performance of ...

Twenty-three years ago, in his Design Principles and Design Patterns article, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin boiled down the Liskov substitution principle to the idea that "derived classes should be ...