My garbage disposal stopped working recently. I turned it on and could hear only the strained hum of the motor, so naturally I proceeded straight to the internet. I usually do that to see what others think of a situation, though my guess was that something was jamming up the works and preventing the motor…
For those that have been reading my more recent posts, which have typically been about broad-level software design or architecture concerns, I should probably issue a rant alert. This is somewhat of a meandering odyssey through the subject of the current prevalence of job hopping, particularly among the so-called millenial generation. I thought I might…
In 1968, Edsger Dijkstra issued a letter entitled “Go To Statement Considered Harmful,” and the age of structured programming was born. The letter was a call to stop programmers of the time from creating ad-hoc control flow structures using goto statements and to instead use these higher level constructs for manipulating flow through a function…
In the last two posts in this series, I talked about how to test new code in your code base and then how to bring your legacy code under test. Toward the end of the last chapter in this series, I talked a bit about the concept of test doubles. The example I showed was…
The other day, I told a developer on my team that I wouldn’t write methods with more than three parameters. I said this in a context where many people would say, “don’t write code with more than three parameters in a method,” in that I am the project architect and coding decisions are mine to…
