There is a Linq extension method that I managed to miss for a long time: Any(). It’s fairly natural to miss this, I believe, since the paradigm of collections tends to be fully ingrained in our way of doing things. That is, if I want to see if any members of a collection match a…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions The Problem Let’s say that you work on a web based piece of software that processes orders for customers in some sort of retail capacity and that there is a framework for a lot of existing…
Oops The other day, I was chatting with some developers and one of them pulled me over to show me the following code: private void SetLayout(Page page) { if (null == page) { return; } } I did a double take and then smirked a bit, pointing out that this was probably dead code. I…
For the fifth post in this series, I’m going to start with a mini rant. A Digression (Rant) About Enum Over the last couple of years, enumerations/enums have been dying a slow death in the world of code that I write. I wasn’t every really an avid user of them, but they’ve definitely been declining…
Copy, Paste, Fail, Repeat Today, I was reviewing some code, and I saw a “before” that looked like this: private void RefreshClassifierValues(Array NewValues) { List ClassifiersList = Classifiers; int i = 0; foreach (Classifier classifier in ClassifiersList) { classifier.Value = NewValues.GetValue(i++); } } The first thing that stuck out to me was that I really…
