Monthly Archives: November 2007

Hall of shame

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

We keep a “Hall of Shame” of WTF-level code snippets to remind us that however bad we might think things get, it could always be worse.  It also serves as a reminder to us that we can’t be complacent with ignorance, … Continue reading →

Posted in C#, Legacy Code, People | 3 Comments

Intention-concealing interfaces: blob parameters

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

When someone is using your code, you want your code to be as explicit and easy to understand as possible.  This is achieved through Intention-Revealing Interfaces.  Evans describes the problems of opaque and misleading interfaces in Domain-Driven Design: If a developer … Continue reading →

Posted in C#, Domain-Driven Design, Patterns | 1 Comment

String extension methods

Posted on November 26, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

I got really tired of the IsNullOrEmpty static method, so I converted it into an extension method: public static class StringExtensions { public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this string value) { return string.IsNullOrEmpty(value); } } Since that method was already static, I … Continue reading →

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Some 80/20 feedback

Posted on November 26, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

Jeff had an interesting post today on putting programmers into two bins, an 80% and a 20%.  The 20% were the alpha-geeks, and the 80% were everyone else, “Morts” for lack of a better term.  One characterization was that the … Continue reading →

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Stop the madness

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

I’ve been extending a legacy codebase lately to make it a bit more testable, and a few small, bad decisions have slowed my progress immensely.  One decision isn’t bad in and of itself, but a small bad decision multiplied a hundred … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Legacy Code, Testing | 3 Comments

ReSharper in VS 2008

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

UPDATE 11/26/2007 Jeffrey Palermo notes that you can use R# in VS 2008 by turning off a couple of features. Ilya Ryzhenkov, product manager at JetBrains, gives detailed information on R# support in VS 2008 and talks about R# 4.0. … Continue reading →

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Installing Visual Studio 2008

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

As has already been noted in numerous places, VS 2008 dropped today.  The installation process has been surprisingly smooth, given my past installation experiences. Downloading went surprisingly quick (after I was able to get in to the subscriptions site, which took … Continue reading →

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Progress made

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

I just wanted to highlight a quote from Scott Guthrie’s recent post on MVC (emphasis mine): VS 2008 Professional now includes built-in testing project support for MSTest (previously in VS 2005 this required a Visual Studio Team System SKU), and our … Continue reading →

Posted in Testing, Tools | 3 Comments

A downcasting tragedy

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

And now, for another tale of legacy code woe, here’s a gut-wrenching tragedy of OCP and downcasting, in five acts. Exposition We have a feature we’re implementing that when the store’s configuration settings allow for a survey link to be shown, … Continue reading →

Posted in Legacy Code, Testing | 2 Comments

Tip of the day

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

If you’re going to physically demonstrate “handwaving“, make sure you don’t have hot chai tea in one of the waving hands. Because it burns. See also: Cause and effect Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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