Steve Freeman

InfoQ has just published Udi Dahan’s talk from QCon 2008 on “Intentions and Interfaces”. It’s good to see the message about focussing on Roles rather than Classes being pitched to a new audience. That’s what we were trying to talk about in our “Mock Roles, Not Objects” paper.

I wonder, however, about his style for naming [...]

Via Brian Marick’s other site:

“Machinery helps you pay attention to what’s important,” Wajswol says. “In cheese making, there are a couple of things you need to focus on. If you can eliminate the nonsense—the mundane, nonskilled steps, like feeding the animals or warming milk correctly—you can spend more time focusing on the texture of the [...]

From Guy Kawasaki interviewing designer Hartmut Esslinger,
If a young person wants to be a great designer, what should he or she do?
Finally, a young person with the right talents needs to have infinite desire and never give up. I apply a simple test with young students: smash a teapot into pieces and then hand [...]