Architecture Diagrams in Structure101 are mapped to the physical code by patterns associated with each cell in the diagram. This enables the visual specification of rules that can then be applied to a specific version of your code so that … Continue reading
“Go” is a new systems programming language created by Google. Syntax is based on C++, and it compiles (like greased lightning apparently) – even has a Printf()! But beyond trivial similarities it is a very different beast: Interfaces replace class … Continue reading
Herbert Simon’s parable of the watchmakers was constructed to convey his belief that complex systems will evolve from simple systems much more rapidly if there are stable intermediate forms present in that evolutionary process than if they are not present. … Continue reading
The parable of the two watchmakers was introduced by Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon to describe the complex relationship of subsystems and their larger wholes. There once were two watchmakers, named Hora and Tempus, who made very fine watches. The … Continue reading
Of course, you can’t code up a (meaningful) system without some number of building blocks. So even in a perfectly architected and layered system, you inevitably accumulate some baggage as you move up the stack. The trick, though, is to … Continue reading
Here an interesting use case. I am currently working on a reuse project. We have a large legacy Java application that we are trying to farm for implementations of some high level functions in a new application. To do this … Continue reading