Guido Tapia
July 26, 2012
I miss very few things from the Java language, one gem I really miss is the package-private accessibility modifier. This was so useful, your IDE colour coded your package classes in another colour so you knew they were not part of the public API. ...
July 3, 2012
It has been over a year since IBM launched its public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Smart Cloud Enterprise (SCE) [http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/cloud-enterprise/] and over three months since PicNet moved its extern ...
in it-support
July 2, 2012
For a while, there had been predictions of the death of the internal IT department. Wrong! There had also been predictions about the death of the IT Manager and CIO. Wrong! What is just occurring, in my view, is a fantastic shift, a ...
June 20, 2012
‘Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension but closed for modification.' [R. Martin] The OCP is a set of strategies based on inheritance and polymorphism that aims to make code more extensib ...
May 14, 2012
Productivity is the efficiency with which an economy (or a company or a business unit) transforms inputs into outputs. At a high level, improved production efficiency can generate higher real incomes and lead to long term improvements in t ...
in productivity
May 14, 2012
Over the coming weeks I plan to do a bit of a study on the SOLID principles. SOLID stands for: ...