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…
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…
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…
I received a recommendation from Ted Young recently to try a switch to IntelliJ IDEA as an alternative to Eclipse IDE. I’ve been using Eclipse for years, but figured I’d give this tool a try, as it’s brought to you by the clever folks that make Resharper. Uncle Bob uses it in his series of…
Today, I’d like to highlight a couple of features of Moq that I didn’t know about until relatively recently (thanks to a recent google+ hangout with Moq author, Daniel Cazzulino). Since learning about these features, I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of them. But, in order to explain these two features and the…
