If Then, If Then, If Then Yesterday’s post where I included Grady Booch’s comment that clean code “reads like well written prose” made me think of something I’ve been contemplating. The other day I was looking at some code and I saw the following (obfuscated): public void GrabUmbrellaIfNecessary() { if (IsItRaining()) { if (DoINeedToLeave()) {…
For the fifth post in this series, I’m going to start with a mini rant. A Digression (Rant) About Enum Over the last couple of years, enumerations/enums have been dying a slow death in the world of code that I write. I wasn’t every really an avid user of them, but they’ve definitely been declining…
An Announcement I’ve enlisted the help of freelance editor Amanda Muledy to copy edit this blog. The content will not be altered in terms of substance; rather, she’ll be correcting grammar and spelling mistakes and the like. She’ll even know whether or not the semi-colon I just used was some kind of faux pas. She…
So, I’m back from my two weeks overseas, refreshed, enriched, and generally wiser, I suppose. We traveled to Spain and Portugal, visiting a ton of historic sites, eating good food and having fun. For my first post back, I’d like to make a third post in my series on abstractions. Methods as Recipes I was…
Last time, I talked about the importance of abstractions in relation to a piece of service code that I had seen. This time, I’d like to expand on that concept a bit. I showed some examples of good versus bad abstractions and talked about why they were good or bad, and this time, I’d like…
