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…
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…
Convention or Improvement I was reading (and commenting on) a blog post by Jimmy Bogard at Los Techies yesterday. The basic premise was that, since Systems Hungarian Notation has basically been rejected by the developer community at large, it is interesting that we continue to pre-pend an “I” to interfaces in C#. The post and…
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….
