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Shipping container prefab is all the rage these days

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FDesignIssues

for both XML and Java. If you want to request new features or contribute to its development, you should understand these first. They go a long way toward explaining why XOM takes the path it does.

The most difficult problem in teaching object- oriented programming is getting the learner to give up the global knowledge of control that is possible with procedural programs, and rely on the local knowledge of objects to accomplish their tasks. Novice designs are littered with regressions to global thinking: gratuitous global variables, unnecessary pointers, and inappropriate reliance on the implementation of other objects. Because learning about objects requires such a shift in overall approach, teaching objects reduces to teaching the design of objects. We focus on design whether we are teaching basic concepts to novices or the subtleties of a complicated design to experienced object programmers.

containers! via Nate

ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages. See the feature list for more details. ArgoUML was installed half a million times during 2005 and is in use all over the world. See the download statistics.

Aunt Tillie will think that "Muffin Recipe.rtf" and "muffin recipe.rtf" ought to be the same file. But you know what? She'll also think that "Muffin Recipe .rtf" and "Recipe for Muffins.rtf" and "Mufin Recipe.txt" ought to be the same file too.