A Design Review of JDOM
Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about problems with the JDOM API. Most are general design issues for any Java API: too many convenience methods and checked exceptions, not preventing user mistakes, ignoring conventions.
Abstraction and Efficiency
Bjarne Stroustrup talks with Bill Venners about raising the level of abstraction, why programming is understanding, how "oops happens," and the difference between premature and prudent optimization.
Air Bags and Other Design Principles
Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about the API design principles that guided the design of the XOM (XML Object Model) API, including enforcement of invariants, information hiding for simplicity, and not using assertions for air bags.
Becoming an Architect
Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about the social role of software architects, the value of sticking with a product release after release, and the importance of domain knowledge.
Chartered and IBM: Building a Common Platform for Manufacturing
Maybe you've read the announcements of the 90- and 65-nanometer platform, but what does it all mean? Is IBM opening its process technology to outside companies? Chartered's Walter Ng puts it into perspective -- including where Samsung and Infineon fit in.
Elegance and Other Design Ideals
Bjarne Stroustrup talks with Bill Venners about many aspects of software design, including growing small applications into larger ones, avoiding class distinctions between designers and users, the dangers of premature generalization, and the essence of elegance.
Failure, Preconditions, and Reuse
Bertrand Meyer talks with Bill Venners about strategies for dealing with failure, where to check preconditions, and when it's appropriate to design for reuse.
Generics in C#, Java, and C++
Anders Hejlsberg, the lead C# architect, talks with Bruce Eckel
and Bill Venners about C# and Java generics, C++ templates,
constraints, and the weak-strong typing dial.
Human-Oriented Architecture
Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about mapping software architecture to human needs, choosing languages for social reasons, and selecting the appropriate architectural granularity.
Interview with Matthew Reynolds
A technical Interview with Matthew Reynolds, author of Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Licensing and Architecture
Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about the impact licensing models have on software architecture, the sustainability of open source business models, and the benefits of providing licensing options.
Matz on Craftsmanship
Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby language, talks with Bill Venners about becoming a better programmer through reading code, learning languages, focusing on fundamentals, being lazy, and considering interfaces.
Tarchitects and Marketects
Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about the different roles of technical and marketing architects, the source of innovation, and the importance of pursuing the same vision of the future.
Type Checking and Techie Control
Bruce Eckel talks with Bill Venners about why he prefers
Python's latent type checking and techie control of language
evolution.
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