Writing maintainable code is for “Code Monkeys”? This morning, I read an interesting blog post from Erik McClure. The premise of the post is that writing maintainable code is sufficiently boring and frustrating as to discourage people from the programming profession. A few excerpts from the post are: There is an endless stream of rheteric…
I’ve recently started working on my home automation web server in earnest, and am trying to give it a nice look and feel. This is made more interesting by the fact that I’m developing a site intende specifically to be consumed by desktops, laptops, tablets and phones alike. With these constraints, it becomes important to…
TDD as a Practice The essence of Test Driven Development (TDD) can be summarized most succinctly as “red, green, refactor”. Following this practice will tend to make your code more reliable, cleaner, and better designed. It is no magic bullet, but you doing TDD is better at programming than you not doing it. However, a…
Finding Seams in Code The other day, someone asked me about how to “get at” certain things that he wanted to unit test in a class that he was writing. That is, he had some code that he wanted to extract from a public method and test, but his only solution was to expose the…
Why Spring MVC? It’s been a while since I’ve done a lot with Java. I’ve been writing an Android app and see and interact with just enough Java not to forget what it looks like, but for the last couple of years, I’ve mainly worked in .NET with C#. Today, I started on actual development…
