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…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Behavioral Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy – Moderate Up Front Definitions Invoker: This object services clients by exposing a method that takes a command as a parameter and invoking the command’s execute Receiver: This is the object upon which commands are performed – its state…
Previously, I posted about odyssey to get belkin wireless dongles working with Ubuntu. Actually, the previous post was tame compared to what I’ve hacked together with these things over the years, including getting them to work on Damn Small Linux where I had to ferret out the text for the entire wpa_supplicant configuration using kernel…
