MIH SWAT

Coming from a Flash Developer background I have had no experience with mobile application development. From the time I saw the first phone to run Android, the G1, I have been itching to get into Android development. So when I was recently given the go-ahead to take this journey into the Android world, plus a shiny new Android phone , I was both excited and nervous (more…)

This post might be considered academic, but it offers a good overview of what I believe to be the guiding principles in terms of software modularity. (more…)

In a previous post we met object orientation’s worst enemy (i.e. strong, unplanned dependencies among classes). It is now time to have a closer look at Dependency Inversion, which is one of the most efficient OOP techniques available with which to fight our adversary. (more…)

Strong dependencies among classes (or components) are definitely the villains within a software architecture. The opposite of strong dependencies, ie completely decoupled architectures, do not exist however, because such a utopian schema would actually result in no messages being exchanged among objects at all. Architects should focus on minimizing strong dependencies, designing only well-planned ones. I refer to the latter as healthy dependencies, and they undoubtedly bring a lot of benefits to a system. (more…)