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…
The other day, I sat in on a meeting where a large-ish group was discussing “standards” for their particular area of software development. I have the word standards in quotes because, by design, there wasn’t a clear definition as to what sorts of standards they would be; it was an open-ended exercise. The standard could…
Order Doesn’t Matter Please pardon the loaded phrasing in the title, but that’s how the message came to me from my subconscious brain: bluntly and without ceremony. I was doing a bit of work in Apex, the object-oriented language specific to Salesforce.com, and it occurred to me that I had no idea what idiomatic Apex…
My Chase of Code Coverage Perhaps it’s because fall is upon us and this is the first year in a while that I haven’t been enrolled in a Master’s of CS program (I graduated in May), I’m feeling a little academic. As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been plowing through following TDD by…
At the moment, I own an Android phone and an IPod Touch. I do a lot of work on home automation and have begun to integrate both devices into what I do, envisioning them as essentially remote controls for operating the various automated appliances and articles in my house. Presently, this is done using…
