Name Smells Revisited A long time ago, I blogged about a concept I dubbed “name smells”. Among other things that I described making me wary of a piece of code just by its name were the words “Helper” and “Manager” in a class name. My issue with this was and is that this tends to…
Recognizing and Understanding My Irritability I’ve been dabbling off and on in Android development lately. For a long time, I used Eclipse on a regular basis and got to know the ins and outs of it quite well, but as a look at my tag cluster will tell you, Visual Studio has been my main…
Just a quick note here. I decided over the weekend to change the URL scheme to remove the query strings from the URLs. I do lose the +1/Like/Tweet/etc counts in the social media plugin, but that’s the only thing that should be affected. The old URLs with query strings and post IDs will redirect to…
The Road to Madness is Paved with Lying APIs Today, I’d like to discuss the subject of little things that add up to making your code a chore to work with for others. I’m not talking about things like code that’s incomplete or non-functional, or other obvious problems, but rather subtle, sort of insidious ones….
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Behavioral Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions N/A The Problem Let’s say that you’re doing something reasonably standard. You have some desktop application that deals with a persistence structure (file, web service, remote database, whatever) and displays things for the user. Since it’s…
