I’ve been working on a side project for a while, and today I uploaded it to Source Forge. The project is a tool that takes XML results generated by MS Test runs and turns them into HTML-based reports. I believe that TFS will do this for you if you have fully Microsoft-integrated everything, but, in…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Relatively simple Up Front Definitions There are no special definitions that I’ll use here not defined inline. The Problem In keeping with the vehicle theme from the previous post, let’s say that we have an application that models vehicle operation….
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…
