AOP can finally advance beyond code-level constructs to realize true cross-cutting visibility for models. It’s taken 25 years, but now programming is on the cusp of a powerful new paradigm linking aspects and use cases. Dr. Dobb's.

How to solve problems there is no consensus on what a problem is, or how to resolve it. By Mary Poppendieck. Dr. Dobb's.

Program managers can learn from the new agile methods, too: Scrum and Extreme Project Management use close quarters, communication and discrete goal-setting to create highly effective project plans. Dr. Dobb's.

Part 2 of 2: W. Edwards Deming's Total Quality Management still rings true for software; rules for lean coding. Dr. Dobb's.

Part 1 of 2: Assembly-line production techniques apply to software, too. Dr. Dobb's.

Evolutionary design is like Extreme Programming (XP) with an edge, adding business sensitivity into the mix. Dr. Dobb's.

A classic programming magazine.

Article reprint from Dr. Dobb's Journal. Reviews the language. [Developer::Pipelines]

To Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, pioneers of object-oriented programming, and Smalltalk language and development environment. As researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), each saw in their own way the promise of objects, and was in a uni...

Take the pure object orientation of Smalltalk, remove the quirky syntax and reliance on a workspace. Add the convenience and power of Perl, but without the special cases and magic conversions. Give it a clean syntax based partly on Eiffel, add a few c...