Programming
How many times have we heard or preached (or both) the important lesson of not having our business logic "leak" into the client tier. Each time we hear it, we nod our heads and say "how true," and get serious for a moment.
The idea of logic leaks applies to other aspects of development, not just the client tier. For example, the Hibernate project is very concerned about not leaking persistence...
Do you have 'grazie signore' moments when you code?
somewhat incoherent, though perhaps interesting musings on languages and apis
I am very grateful to James Gosling for posting his blog entry of January 4, 2005: "Sharpen the Axe: the Dark Side." (http://weblogs.java.net/jag/)
The reason is that I believe this very topic to be of utmost importance to software developers (and their employers!). The second reason is that I don't believe this issue is discussed openly enough. So, first of all, thank you Dr. Gosling for the...
