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 KirwanAugust 22nd, 2014
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The most important factor in software decay
Do you have big balls of mud? Here’s an experiment to amaze your friends. You probably listen to music on…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanMay 16th, 2014
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Who’s afraid of the big bad class?
Ferocious, guzzling black holes of the software universe, super-massive classes result from run-away positive feedback: the class grows so huge…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanApril 23rd, 2014
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Structural contingency (part one)
Order, in mathematics, matters. Take two functions, f and g, and compose them, thus applying them to an argument as…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanMarch 18th, 2014
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What’s the opposite of duplication?
“If you see the same code structure in more than one place,” writes Martin Fowler in his wonderful, Refactoring book,…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanMarch 5th, 2014
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Dependency inversion: the structure logarithm
Re-examining benefits. Through the corroded dripping pipes of transitive dependencies, ripple effects gush. Programmers sometimes spend arduous days clambering down…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanApril 25th, 2013
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How many classes and packages should you have?
Real world experience. Once upon a time there lived a family of programming bears. Each morning mammy bear, daddy bear…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanApril 22nd, 2013
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Going Dawkins on god objects
Meet the enemy. Steaming stinking jungle crushing all about you, insects infesting the air, strange grunts shuddering in the foliage,…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanApril 16th, 2013
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How deep is your code?
Dependency tuples. Picture your code. Picture all those functions on which there are no source-code dependencies. That might sound odd:…
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Software Development
Edmund KirwanApril 10th, 2013
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The three greatest paragraphs ever written on encapsulation
Definition. Encapsulation isn’t sexy. It’s the chartered accounting of software design. Functional Java programming? Formula freakin’ one. Hybrid cloud computing?…
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