I was at a users’ group recently here in Chicago, and there were two excellent presenters. There were two very well done presentations: one about Xamarin and one about the C# language entitled “Underestimated C# Language Features” by John Michael Hauck. This was a very polished and appealing talk in which he wove together some…
I think there’s a lot of value to the conservation angle of the green movement. In general, it’s a matter of efficiency–if you can heat/light/whatever your house with the same quality of life, using less energy and fewer resources, that’s a win for everyone. This applies to a whole lot of things beyond just eco-concerns,…
In the last post in this series, I covered what I think of as an important yet seldom discussed subject: how not to overwhelm yourself and get discouraged when you’re starting to unit test. In the post before that, I showed the basics of writing a unit test. But this leaves something of a gap….
I was reviewing some code the other day, and I saw a quick-and-dirty logger implementation that looked something like this (I’m re-creating from memory and modifying a bit for illustrative purposes in this post): public class Logger { public string Path { get; set; } public Logger() { } public Logger(string path) { Path =…
Today, a developer on my team, relatively new to C# and some of the finer points of OO, asked me to take a look at his code. I saw this: public class Address { public string Street1; public string Street2; public string City; public string State; public string Zip; } How would you react to…
