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  • Anti Patterns

    I Love Debugger

    ByErik Dietrich May 18, 2012April 22, 2014

    Learning to Love Bugs My apologies for the titular pun in reference to “I Love Big Brother” of iconic, Orwellian fame, but I couldn’t resist. The other day, I was chatting with some people about the idea of factoring large methods into smaller, more focused ones and one of the people chimed in with an…

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  • Preserve Developer Mindshare – Don’t Nitpick

    ByErik Dietrich May 15, 2012

    Mindshare I’m not particularly interested in marketing principles in the commercial sense of the word (though I find the psychology of argumentation and persuasion to be fascinating), so please excuse any failed parallelism in advance. Today, I want to talk about the concept of mind share, but to apply it to the life of a…

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  • WordPress, Twenty-Ten and Image Resize

    ByErik Dietrich May 12, 2012

    I discovered today that image resizing wasn’t working for the blog.  Amazingly, I’d never had an occasion where I cared about resizing an image until just now.  But, when I did, I discovered a frustrating thing.  In the “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) editor for WordPress, the images were appearing correctly and…

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  • Abstractions

    Abstractions are Important Part 2 – Good Abstractions

    ByErik Dietrich May 11, 2012September 27, 2012

    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…

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  • Abstractions | Anti Patterns

    Abstractions are Important

    ByErik Dietrich May 1, 2012June 30, 2015

    I was helping someone troubleshoot an issue today, digging through code, and I came across a double-take-inducing design decision. In the GUI, there was a concept of feature, and each feature was being bound to something called FeatureGroup which was a collection of features that, at run-time, only ever contained one feature. So, as a…

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