I imagine that inversion of control is a relatively popular concept to talk or blog about, particularly in object-oriented circles, so rather than do a garden-variety explanation of the term followed by a pitch for using it, I thought I’d take a slightly different approach. I’m going to talk about the reason that there is…
In the previous post on this subject, I created a basic DXCore plugin that, admittedly, had some warts. I started using it and discovered that there were subtle issues. If you’ll recall, the purpose of this was to create a plugin that would convert some simple stylistic elements between my preferences and those of a…
A lot of people have caught onto certain programming trends: some agility in the process generally makes things better, unit testing a code base tends to make it more reliable, etc. One thing that, in my experience, seems to lag behind in popularity is the use of static checking tools. If these are used at…
Something interesting occurred to me the other day when I posted sample code for a DXCore plugin that I created. In the code that I uploaded, I added a unit test project with a few unit tests as a matter of course. Apparently, the process of unit testing has become so ingrained in me that…
Coding standards are one of those things that generally involve some degree of compromise, as there is often a goal during collaboration to give the code a uniform look and feel. I don’t necessarily agree with this goal in all cases, but I do understand it. Having code formatted in wildly different styles in the…
