Robert C. Martin's Weblog http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=unclebob Artima Weblogs is a community of bloggers posting on a wide range of topics of interest to software developers. Artima.com http://www.artima.com/images/artima88x33.gif http://www.artima.com/ Apprenticeship -- The untold story. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=60208 The trials and tribulations of an apprentice at Object Mentor. Differentiation through Obfuscation http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=59084 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. The Tortoise and the Hare http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=51769 In software the race goes to those who go well, not those who go fast. Modelling the real world. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=37870 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.) YAGNI http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=36529 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. Oh No! DTO! http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=36312 Should DTOs have public variables? Or should they have private variables with getters and setters? Layers, Levels, and DIP http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=35139 It is often said that high level layers should depend on lower level layers. However the Dependency Inversion Principle says that high level policy should not depend upon low level details. What's up with that? Web Services? What has the industry been smoking? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=27269 Let's take an old idea, like RPC, and wrap it with some new hype and nomenclature, and then mediate it with a completely orthogonal protocol! Yeah, lets! Debuggers are a wasteful Timesink http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=23476 As debuggers have grown in power and capability, they have become more and more harmful to the process of software development. Reference Architecture http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=17799 Is it valuable for an enterprise to adopt a <i>Reference Architecture</i>? If so, how should that RA be used? Agile Methods. The bottom Line. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=16880 What are Agile Methods really all about? Is it some new humanistic view of software development? Is it a social revolution? Or is it just plain good business? This blog makes the case for the latter. We will not ship shit. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=7588 As software craftsmen, we have rules. Sometimes we feel bad when the rules mut be broken. They're just rules though. What's important is that we have a moral center, a professional core, that refuses to compromise the quality of our work. Use Cases -- A minimalist's view. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=6537 Use cases are a wonderful idea that has been vastly overcomplicated. The real trick to use cases is to _keep them simple_. Remember, tomorrow they are going to change. Now we know. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=6443 Now we know what God thinks of us. See http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030630.html?list=true. Any Idiot. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=5170 It doesn't take much brains to build a virus. What takes brains is building software that other people want to buy.