I don’t know about you, but I remember desperately wanting to be able to drive right up until I was fifteen years old and I got my learner’s permit. I thought about it a lot–how fun it would be, how much freedom I would have, how my trusty old bike would probably get rusty from…
In the last post in this series, I covered the essentials of unit testing without diving into the topic in any real detail. The idea was to offer sort of a guerrilla guide to what unit testing is for those who don’t know but feel they should. Continuing on that path and generating material for…
Have you ever been introduced to someone and promptly forgotten their name? Or have you ever worked with or seen someone enough socially that you ought to know their name? They know yours, and you’re no longer in a position that it’s socially acceptable for you to ask them theirs. You’re stuck, so now you’re…
Let’s say that in a green field code base someone puts together a type that conceptually is a collection of non-integer values. For the sake of discussion, let’s call it a graph. A graph object might store a series of two-element tuples or perhaps a series of some value type like “point.” The graph might…
The Origins of Legacy Code I’ve been reading the Michael Feathers book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code and enjoying it immensely. It’s pushing ten years old, but it stands the test of time quite well–probably much better than some of the systems it uses as examples. And there is a lot of wisdom to take…
