Object-Oriented Software Construction, Bertrand Meyer Dr. Bertrand Meyer founded and remains chief technical officer of ISE, a software company now in its sixteenth year. He participated in creating ...

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Large codebases are more difficult to maintain when they are written in dynamic languages. At least that’s what Yevgeniy Brikman, lead developer bringing the Play Framework to LinkedIn says in a video ...

Statically typed languages are those in which you would need to specify the type of an object at the time when you define it. Examples of statically typed languages include C#, VB, and C++. On the ...

The dynamic keyword and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) are major new features in C# 4 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. These features generated a lot of interest when announced -- along with a ...

When Robert Martin talks, programmers listen. XP! Patterns! UML! Java! C++! OOD! SE! For most of the last 30 years, Martin has worked full time at the center of modern programming practice. His ...

I shouldn’t be up this late, but I’ve been doing lots of thinking and exploring tonight. In studying various VMs over the past few years, I’ve come up with a list of do’s and don’t that make things ...

The dynamic keyword brings exciting new features to C# 4. Find out how it works and why it simplifies a lot of your coding tasks, including some handy COM interop possibilities. The dynamic keyword ...