Most people who start a blog face the questions that are common for newcomers: How to make it popular? What blogging platform to choose? And, in some cases, how make money from it? However, these questions have no exact answers, just as there are no magic bullets for blogging. The moment you realize that, you change your strategy and start looking for successful bloggers and try to learn from their experience. One of such bloggers is Yegor Bugayenko the author of the “256 Bloghacks”.
In the comments section of one my recent articles I have been asked the following question: “Why do DTOs lead to temporal coupling?”. Seriously, why? Have we not been using them for years in Java without critically thinking about what could be wrong with them?
The concepts of information and data have drawn a lot of attention from the public in today’s age of big data and data mining. However, the application of these terms in OOP is yet to happen.
DTO (Data Transfer Object) has long been a source of discussions on the subject of it’s place in OOP. Most often, the debate occurs on the topic of practical difference between a DTO and an entity (an object which represents a real-world subject). Some programmers, who are against DTO as a concept, have been able to demonstrate through convincing arguments and examples why DTOs should be avoided. However, the question of practical alternatives and common mistakes in them still remains open.
John is a newcomer to Java and has faced the need to save key-value pairs to a file. He reaches stackoverflow for help and finds the JDK Properties class…
