Actions are driven by ideas, and ideas are driven by philosophy. For a deep understanding of our actions, we have to go the whole way back to the philosophy that motivates them. So what’s the philosophical basis for Object Oriented Programming? This talk discusses Plato’s theory of forms, its relationship …
Writing CSS is a pain in the ass and should be considered harmful if performed on a daily basis without your mind getting reset every night. It can also be a big honking mess if you have twenty developers or more all mocking about in the same CSS code base. …
Ruby is one of the best object-oriented languages around. Ubiquitous objects, duck-typing, mixins, expressive syntax with low ceremony, powerful reflection and metaprogramming. But Ruby has a mixed heritage that incorporates functional and procedural models along with OOP. This flexibility provides many options for how to solve problems, but it can …
Learn how to use OOD to create the best kinds of messes, those that let you get software out the door today without regretting your actions tomorrow. Software is always a mess. You can’t avoid this mess, and if hubris goads you into attempting to achieve perfection, you’ll just make …
Let’s do a deep dive into the first of the SOLID principles for good object oriented software design. What is a responsibility? Why should it be single? How do we make it single? We’ll examine all these issues in extreme detail. We’ll look at some old code to see whether …
Much of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is all about object-oriented design. The challenge with elegant designs is that they all start out ugly. But our domain objects don’t need to stay as anemic, data-centric property bags. With a small set of well-honed refactoring techniques, we can turn an ugly domain model …
