Introduction This is going to be the first post in a new series that I’m doing on design patterns. Now, I’m certainly not the first person to post a taxonomy of design patterns and explain them, but I would like to put a different spin on the usual. Normally, I see postings that contain a…
All In? It seems to me that most or many treatises on best practices for software engineering in this day and age advocate for Test Driven Development (TDD). I have read about this methodology, both on blogs and in a book that I ordered from Amazon (Test Driven Development By Example). I have put it…
An Observation Today I attended a technical presentation on a domain-specific implementation of some software and a deployment process. The subject matter was relevant to my work, and I watched with interest. While the presentation was, to some degree, dominated by discussion from other attendees rather than pure explanation, I followed along as best I…
This is another one of those posts that’s more for my reference, but if anyone else finds it useful, so much the better… So, a few years ago, I bought some Belkin wireless USB dongles (F5D7050 is the chipset, I believe). I’ve gotten these working with a few different Linux distros, but the one I…
The Problem If you find yourself immersed in a code base that is sometimes or often fast and loose with APIs and internal contracts between components, you might get into the habit of writing a lot of defensive code. This applies to pretty much any programming language, but I’ll give examples here in C#, since…
