I was chatting with someone the other day about some code that he had written, and he expressed that he wished he had done it another way. He said that there was a bunch of duplication and that, while he wasn’t sure what he should have done, he didn’t think it seemed quite right. I…
TDD Revisited Again Previously I blogged about TDD with some reservations and then later as I re-introduced myself to the pure practice as I had learned it some many moons ago. For the last month, I have been plowing ahead methodically with this experiment, and I thought I’d revisit some of my thoughts from earlier….
Short but sweet post tonight, and I’m mostly putting this here for reference. It’s annoyed me a few times, and each time I have to google around until I find something like this stack overflow post. If you add a moles assembly for System, unlike other framework assemblies, building your test project will blow up…
A Tragic Story It starts out innocently enough. You’re out at a party with some friends, and some people you want to impress are there. Everyone is having a good time, but you notice that some of the ‘cool’ kids are periodically going into a room and coming out giggling. Not wanting to be left…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Creational Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Relatively easy. Up Front Definitions Here are terms that I’ll be using in this explanation and what they mean: Composite: This is another design pattern, but I’m using it here to mean an object that is composed of other objects….
