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A Design Review of JDOM
by Bill Venners, June 29, 2003, Submit comment Submit comment
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.
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The Zen of Python
by Bill Venners, June 22, 2003, 7 comments 7 comments
Bruce Eckel talks with Bill Venners about why he prefers Python's valuing programmer productivity over program performance, Python's you-want-it-you-can-have-it attitude, and Python's zen-like learning curve.
The Good, the Bad, and the DOM
by Bill Venners, June 15, 2003, 2 comments 2 comments
Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about the problems with the DOM API, and the design lessons he learned from DOM.
Pass Context to Unit Tests with Artima SuiteRunner
by Bill Venners, June 13, 2003, Submit comment Submit comment
This article shows you how to pass context to unit and conformance tests by supplying configuration parameters to Artima SuiteRunner.
How Vienna Escaped the Cubicle
by Bill Venners, June 8, 2003, 2 comments 2 comments
In this interview, you'll find out how Vienna Teng, a 24 year old Java programmer at Cisco, landed a record contract, quit her day job to pursue her passion in music, and before long ended up on the Dave Letterman show.
Analyze this!
by Bill Venners, June 8, 2003, 17 comments 17 comments
James Gosling talks with Bill Venners about his current research project, code-named Jackpot, which builds annotated parse trees for programs and can help you analyze, visualize, and refactor your program.
Python and the Programmer
by Bill Venners, June 1, 2003, 30 comments 30 comments
Bruce Eckel talks with Bill Venners about why he feels Python is "about him," how minimizing clutter improves productivity, and the relationship between backwards compatibility and programmer pain.
What's Wrong with XML APIs
by Bill Venners, May 25, 2003, 7 comments 7 comments
Elliotte Rusty Harold talks with Bill Venners about the five styles of XML APIs, and the problems with data-binding APIs.
Exploring Design Spaces
by Bill Venners, May 18, 2003, 4 comments 4 comments
This article looks at the role of exploration in software design: the importance that thinking, discussing, experimenting, and getting user feedback has to discovering the best solution.
Think of Objects as Machines
by Bill Venners, May 11, 2003, 11 comments 11 comments
This article suggests that good API designs happen when designers think of objects as machines, classes and interfaces as blueprints for those machines, and client programmers as users.
Plain Text and XML
by Bill Venners, May 4, 2003, 18 comments 18 comments
Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas talk with Bill Venners about the value of storing persistent data in plain text and the ways they feel XML is being misused.
Programming Defensively
by Bill Venners, April 27, 2003, 5 comments 5 comments
Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas talk with Bill Venners about the importance of programming defensively against your own and other's mistakes, of crashing near the cause, and understanding the proper use assertions.
Tracer Bullets and Prototypes
by Bill Venners, April 20, 2003, 4 comments 4 comments
Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas talk with Bill Venners about the importance of getting feedback during development by firing tracer bullets and building prototypes.
Programming is Gardening, not Engineering
by Bill Venners, April 13, 2003, 4 comments 4 comments
Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas talk with Bill Venners about a gardening metaphor for software development, the reasons coding is not mechanical, and the stratification of development jobs.
Programming Close to the Domain
by Bill Venners, April 6, 2003, 3 comments 3 comments
Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas talk with Bill Venners about the benefit of programming in a language close to the business domain.
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