Category Archives: OOP

Set the settings set

Posted on 2014-01-29 by Graham

The worst method naming convention Object-Oriented programming is set{Thing}(). And no, C# doesn’t escape my ire for calling it Set{Thing}(), nor does Smalltalk for calling it {thing}:, though that does handily demonstrate how meaningless set is. OK, so set isn’t … Continue reading →

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Meaningless Vapid Catchphrase

Posted on 2014-01-21 by Graham

On the 4th December 2013, I said: Urge to search the archives for papers on Model-View-Controller and write an essay on its ever-changing meaning in programmer discourse. Do you have any idea how much work that is? I do, now. … Continue reading →

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ClassBrowser: warts and all

Posted on 2014-01-02 by Graham

I previously gave a sneak peak of ClassBrowser, a dynamic execution environment for Objective-C. It’s not anything like ready for general use (in fact it can’t really do ObjC very well at all), but it’s at the point where you … Continue reading →

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Standing at the Crossroads

Posted on 2013-12-24 by Graham

A while back I wrote Conflicts in my Mental Model of Objective-C, in which I listed a few small scale dichotomies or cognitive dissonances that plagued my notion of my work. I just worked out what the overall picture is, … Continue reading →

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A sneaky preview of ClassBrowser

Posted on 2013-12-18 by Graham

Let me start with a few admissions. Firstly, I have been computering for a good long time now, and I still don’t really understand compilers. Secondly, work on my GNUstep Web side-project has tailed off for a while, because I … Continue reading →

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By your _cmd

Posted on 2013-12-17 by Graham

This post is a write-up of a talk I gave at Alt Tech Talks: London on the Objective-C runtime. Seriously though, you should’ve been there. The Objective-C runtime? That’s the name of the library of C functions that implement the … Continue reading →

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Conflicts in my mental model of Objective-C

Posted on 2013-10-09 by Graham

My worldview as it relates to the writing of software in Objective-C contains many items that are at odds with one another. I either need to resolve them or to live with the cognitive dissonance, gradually becoming more insane as … Continue reading →

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Choosing the correct openings and closures

Posted on 2013-09-16 by Graham

Plenty of programmers will have heard of the Open-Closed Principle of object-oriented design. It is, after all, one of the five SOLID principles. You may not, however, have seen the principle as originally stated. You’ve probably heard this formulation by … Continue reading →

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Garbage-collected Objective-C

Posted on 2013-07-15 by Graham

When was a garbage collector added to Objective-C? If you follow Apple’s work with the language, you might be inclined to believe that it was in 2008 when AutoZone was added as part of Objective-C 2.0 (the AutoZone collector has … Continue reading →

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Separating user interface from work

Posted on 2013-06-17 by Graham

Here’s a design I’ve had knocking around my head for a while, and between a discussion we had a few weeks ago at work and Saul Mora’s excellent design patterns talk at QCon I’ve built it. A quick heads-up: currently … Continue reading →

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