Jesus Perez in Refactoring encourages us to review the complexity of the object design of our programs, and where possible to remove the definition of some classes where the same effect can be achieved more simply. He gives the example of two classes: person and telephone_number where nothing is done with the telephone number except to view it from the person class. In such a case, the attributes of telephone_number can be moved into the person class giving a much simpler design that is easier to maintain. Should the telephone_number class be genuinely required later in the development process, then it can be retrieved from the code management system.
impares in certificándome says that he took advantage of the long holiday that we have had in Spain to take a break from java generics. The weather was not very good, so he played gnuGo as Go has been a game he has wanted to get to grips with for some time.
JorgeBec in Ingenieria de Software writes that the third edition of Software Guru has been published. This is a Mexican magazine that specializes in software engineering. In this edition there is an interview with Miguel de Icaza (a well known figure of the Open Source movement) and a good article about the estimation of the size of a software project.
Luis Belloch in Pointer to (void) says that he has now received his copy of Ubuntu and that its installation was a breeze. Everything that he needs is working, including his memory stick. Ubuntu are distributing their Linux distribution from this page.
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