In this episode, it seems I finally got the hang of castling. It’s been a relatively long journey with it, but I can now successfully detect castling situations that involve any combination of rook/king prior movement, as well as interceding pieces. The only thing left to go is the relative edge case of a castling…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Infragistics blog. Go check out the original post on their site and take a look around while you’re there to see some of the other authors posting interesting things. Let’s say that, like many folks, one of your first tasks each morning is dealing with your email….
The last few episodes featured heads down implementation around this new CastlingStatusChecker class. It was nice to spend some time writing relatively simple unit tests to restore some sanity and get away from an overly-coupled Board class. But, it was time to come up for some air and get back to proving some business/domain value….
After a couple of episodes working on castling for white, and then an episode refactoring that implementation, it’s finally time to implement castling for black pieces. This actually went pretty well. The groundwork that I had laid in the previous episodes made life a lot easier for me here. It wasn’t perfect, by the end,…
In this episode, I decided to be content with the simple beauty of a refactoring. I’m on the road and quite busy, including some presentations and a lot of driving around to various client sites, so it’s already a tiring week. Add to that the fact that my car stereo is (was) apparently a hot…
