Tonight, I was plodding through the process of getting to know MongoDB and its java driver, TDD style. This is an interesting experience, as most of one’s development is going to involve technologies with which one is familiar and working out designs. This is classic problem isolation — all of your tools are familiar, and…
Back Story Some time back, I setup Team Foundation Server (TFS) on a server machine more or less dedicated to the cause. This was to test drive it to consider it as a replacement for legacy source control, requirements management, deployment, etc. Since it was a trial, run, I opted for keeping setup simpler initially,…
Very quickly, I just installed a plugin to consolidate subscription through my feedburner account. Basically, my feedburner account will become aware of all subscribers now, including those who simply access u91v09hj8v-staging.onrocket.site/feed or those who use the subscription buttons on the left. As I understand it, this should have no effect on subscriptions whatsoever. Nonetheless, if…
Roll Up Your Sleeves Have you ever stared into a code mess? I don’t mean some little mess, but rather the kind of mess that, as Nietzsche put it, stares back into you if you stare at it for too long. You can almost feel it making you worse at programming. It’s the kind of…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions Decorator: An object that is both an inherits from and operates on another object. Component: Abstract target base class (or interface) of the decorator pattern. Target: For the purposes of this post, I use this term interchangeably…
