What’s Wrong with Code Contracts?!? Let me start out by saying that I really see nothing wrong with code contracts, and what I’m offering is not intended as any kind of replacement for them in the slightest. Rather, I’m offering a solution for a situation where contracts are not available to you. This might occur…
GitHub Not too long ago, I signed up for GitHub. I had always used subversion for source control when given the choice, but the distributed nature of Git appealed to me, particularly since I often do work on a variety of different machines. GitHub itself appealed to me because it seemed like the perfect venue…
Name Smells Revisited A long time ago, I blogged about a concept I dubbed “name smells”. Among other things that I described making me wary of a piece of code just by its name were the words “Helper” and “Manager” in a class name. My issue with this was and is that this tends to…
The Road to Madness is Paved with Lying APIs Today, I’d like to discuss the subject of little things that add up to making your code a chore to work with for others. I’m not talking about things like code that’s incomplete or non-functional, or other obvious problems, but rather subtle, sort of insidious ones….
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Behavioral Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions N/A The Problem Let’s say that you’re doing something reasonably standard. You have some desktop application that deals with a persistence structure (file, web service, remote database, whatever) and displays things for the user. Since it’s…
