A Tragic Story It starts out innocently enough. You’re out at a party with some friends, and some people you want to impress are there. Everyone is having a good time, but you notice that some of the ‘cool’ kids are periodically going into a room and coming out giggling. Not wanting to be left…
I was reading a blog post by Scott Hanselman this morning. The main premise was a bemused lampooning of the ubiquitous tendency of techies to create a resume “alphabet soup” and a suggestion that Stack Overflow Careers is introducing a better alternative. I was going to comment on this post inline, but I discovered that…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Creational Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Relatively easy. Up Front Definitions Here are terms that I’ll be using in this explanation and what they mean: Composite: This is another design pattern, but I’m using it here to mean an object that is composed of other objects….
Code Reviews One thing that I tend to contemplate from time to time and have yet to post about is the idea of code reviews and what constitutes a good one. I’ve worked on projects where there was no code review process, a half-hearted review process, an annoying or counter-productive code review process, and a…
My Chase of Code Coverage Perhaps it’s because fall is upon us and this is the first year in a while that I haven’t been enrolled in a Master’s of CS program (I graduated in May), I’m feeling a little academic. As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been plowing through following TDD by…
