What’s a Bloated Constructor? Yesterday, I was going through the version history of a file in some code base (from earliest to most recent) and I saw the following: public ActiveProduct(Product product, StringVersion driver, Side es) { Side = es; try { if (product == null) throw new Exception(“Can’t create an active product from a…
This is a little series of things that I’ve picked up over the course of time and use in situations to make my code more compact, and, in my opinion readable. Your mileage may vary on liking any or all of these, but I figured I’d share them. To me, compacting code is very important….
So, I’m back from my two weeks overseas, refreshed, enriched, and generally wiser, I suppose. We traveled to Spain and Portugal, visiting a ton of historic sites, eating good food and having fun. For my first post back, I’d like to make a third post in my series on abstractions. Methods as Recipes I was…
Today, I’d like to highlight a couple of features of Moq that I didn’t know about until relatively recently (thanks to a recent google+ hangout with Moq author, Daniel Cazzulino). Since learning about these features, I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of them. But, in order to explain these two features and the…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions Decorator: An object that is both an inherits from and operates on another object. Component: Abstract target base class (or interface) of the decorator pattern. Target: For the purposes of this post, I use this term interchangeably…
