Edmund Kirwan

Edmund is a programmer with a telecoms company in Stockholm where he is currently working on a large-scale network simulator. In his spare time he thinks far too much about program-structure.

Software Development
Edmund KirwanSeptember 17th, 2015
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Battle of the structures
Figure 1 shows a spoiklin class diagram of a well-structured package. …
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanAugust 17th, 2015
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Interface over-segregation
Programmers easily spot bloated interfaces, and usually carry with them an assortment of, “Knives and stabbing weapons,” for just such…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanJuly 17th, 2015
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Bugs and cracks
Compile-time and run-time villains. Consider the software system on which you currently work. Would you release that system with 31,197…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanJune 24th, 2015
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Structural simplicity
You’ve all seen Rich Hickey’s excellent Simple-made-easy presentation, in which Mr Hickey trawls the dictionary to remind us that, “Simple,”…
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Enterprise Java
Edmund KirwanMay 27th, 2015
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The structure of Apache Lucene
The inestimably noble Apache Software Foundation produces many of the blockbuster products (Ant, CouchDB, Hadoop, JMeter, Maven, OpenOffice, Subversion, etc.)…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanApril 21st, 2015
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Software engineering as … engineering.
How do you compare the structure of two different programs? You could fire up your IDE and dive in. A…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanJanuary 8th, 2015
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Breaking Bad … interfaces.
A question of efficiency. So, you start working on some code and a monstrous interface snarls back at you, picking…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanOctober 3rd, 2014
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Visualizing engineering fields
Civil engineering. Mechanical engineering. Electronic…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanSeptember 10th, 2014
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Bad program structure: the complectation
Degrees of badness Many programmers consider source code dependencies either circular or non-circular, with circular dependencies representing The Greatest Imaginable…
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