This is one last post of loose ends and looking at what I’ve done so far before I move on to new functionality. It wasn’t necessarily my finest hour as a programmer and TDD practitioner, but I’m including the good with the bad because nobody is always on when programming. Also, I wasn’t insanely on…
I recently had a comment on a very old blog post that led to a conversation between the commenter and me. During the conversation, I made the comment that extension methods in C# are just syntactic sugar over plain ol’ static methods. He asked me to do a post exploring this in further detail, which…
Improving Readability with Small Things In my series on building a Chess game using TDD I’ve defined a value type called BoardCoordinate that I introduced instead of passing around X and Y coordinate integer primitives everywhere. It’s a simple enough construct: public struct BoardCoordinate { private readonly int _x; public int X { get {…
Now that all of the pieces are implemented, I decided to change it up a little and get rid of a few yellow items in one fell swoop. I thought it would also be a good time to Here’s what I accomplish in this clip: Move Knight into it’s own class. Separated test and production…
Before you get any ideas, this isn’t about Amway; I’m not going to follow “how to quit your job” with an ellipsis and then a bunch of promises about how you can make a 7 figure income emailing pictures of cats to people. In fact, this post has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or…
