Monthly Archives: July 2007

a MIDlet for personal timeboxing

I wrote a small, very very simple MIDlet for time boxing since more than one person mentioned in last weeks that it would be nice to use such an application.
It’s a MIDP 2.0 app and it should work on any phone, on my N95 works fine. Depending on the number of downloads and feedbacks maybe [...]

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What If Apple Has Sold Fewer Than 1 Million iPhones?

I’m a bit sad about this news, reported here,

What If Apple Has Sold Fewer Than 1 Million iPhones
AT&T (T) announced today that it had only activated 146,000 Apple (AAPL) iPhones the first day that they were on sale. And, investment bank CIBC said that sales of the handset have slowed considerably in the last 10 [...]

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Inheritance is not OO, template methods are evil

My first coach Bruno always said that Inheritance doesn’t imply Object Oriented and he’s absolutely right. An abstract class necessarily implies inheritance and I really don’t like abstract classes! I rather prefer to use dependency injection, inheritance between classes just leads to the highest level of coupling that you can introduce.
Right after the university [...]

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Pragmatic tips on wordpress

I’ve generated the fortune files from the old good pragmatic tips, in order to use them you need the fortune wordpress widget. And this is the main reason also for the restyling of the layout of my blog… I guess the 4th… My previous theme wasn’t widget compatible… That generated a widget obsession, so I [...]

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