Category Archives: ooa/d

A hopefully modern description of Object-Oriented Design

Posted on 2021-05-31 by Graham

We left off in the last post with an idea of how Object-Oriented Analysis works: if you’re thinking that it used around a thousand words to depict the idea “turn nouns from the problem domain into objects and verbs into … Continue reading →

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A hopefully modern description of Object-Oriented Analysis

Posted on 2021-05-30 by Graham

I’ve made a lot over the years, including the book, Object-Oriented Programming the Easy Way, of my assertion that one reason people are turned off from Object-Oriented Programming is that they weren’t doing Object-Oriented Design. Smalltalk was conceived as a … Continue reading →

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On dynamic vs. static polymorphism

Posted on 2009-04-25 by Graham Lee

An interesting juxtaposition in the ACCU 2009 schedule put my talk on “adopting MVC in Objective-C and Cocoa” next to Peter Sommerlad’s talk on “Design patterns with modern C++”. So the subject matter in each case was fairly similar, but … Continue reading →

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Cocoa: Model, View, Chuvmey

Posted on 2009-02-23 by Graham Lee

Chuvmey is a Klingon word meaning “leftovers” – it was the only way I could think of to keep the MVC abbreviation while impressing upon you, my gentle reader, the idea that what is often considered the Controller layer actually … Continue reading →

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Properties about a year on

Posted on 2008-10-04 by Graham Lee

Leopard has now been out for nearly a year, which means that (publicly) we’ve had Objective-C 2.0 for the same amount of time. At the release many developers were champing at the bit to talk about the new language capabilities[], … Continue reading →

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MacDev 2009!

Posted on 2008-09-28 by Graham Lee

It’s a long way off, but now is a good time to start thinking about the MacDev ’09 conference, organised by the inimitable Scotty of the Mac Developer Network. This looks like being Europe’s closest answer to WWDC, but without … Continue reading →

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A better bit o’ twitter than the bitter twitter Tommy Titter bought

Posted on 2008-09-01 by Graham Lee

Just because everyone these days writes a Twitter client: This was actually a quick hack project to make up for the fact that I missed CocoaHeads tonight (due to a combination of an uninteresting phone call, and a decision to … Continue reading →

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Objective-C Design Patterns

Posted on 2007-12-08 by Graham Lee

Certain events at work have turned me into a bit of a design patterns geek of late, and as such I stumbled across this DDJ article from 1997 (the title of this post is the link). According to del.icio.us not … Continue reading →

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