What is a Scratchpad? When you have a question like “what exception is thrown when I try to convert a long that is too big to an integer” or “what is the difference in performance between iterating over a list or a dictionary converted to a list” what do you do? Google it? Phone a…
In the wee hours of the morning this morning/last night, I did an overhaul of post categories on the blog. When I started out, I didn’t really see the purpose of categories versus tags, so I just made everything a category and had the tag cloud display categories. That was a workable solution at the…
The String.Split() method in C# is probably something with which any C# developer is familiar. string x = “Erik.Dietrich”; var tokens = x.Split(‘.’); Here, “tokens” will be an array of strings containing “Erik” and “Dietrich”. It’s not exactly earth shattering to tokenize a string in this fashion. And some incarnation or another of this predates…
The Pledge When it comes to US intellectual property law, specifically patents as they pertain to software, I have a very scorched Earth philosophy. Don’t tweak it. Don’t reform it. Don’t debate over it. Don’t worry about it. Just delete it. Yes, to me, it’s like a nasty, tangled mass of bad code where it’s…
My friend Paul pointed something out to me the other day regarding my post about TDD even when you have to discard tests. I believe that this trick was taken from the book Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers (though I haven’t yet read this one, so I can’t be positive. I was…
