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A look at Dependency Injection and Inversion

published 1 year, 7 months ago by RobertTheGrey(490)
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There seems to be a fair amount of confusion around this topic, a particularly useful tool in the SOLID toolbox, but in the wrong hands can go horribly wrong. Let's try and set the record straight now more...

Flag Parameters are Evil! (Or at least unclear)

published 1 year, 11 months ago by Jim Holmes(30)
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Avoid methods with boolean flags in their signatures. Instead prefer well-named methods which provide a facade over the method with the implementation in it. more...

Avoid API Overloads with Different Behaviors

published 2 years, 1 month ago by Jim Holmes(30)
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Overloading methods can be extremely useful; however, it's also a gateway drug into turning your codebase into a mess with mixed concerns and confusing behavior. Here's a real-world example for you. more...

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Pattern Matching in F# Part 1 : Out of the Box
developerfusion.com published 1 year, 5 months ago by jamescrowley(5)
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In the first of a two part series, Jessica Kerr examines and demonstrates the powerful built-in pattern matching functionality in F# and reveals there's a lot more to it than a C# switch statement or more...
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Feature switching: a better way to collaborate?
stack72.me published 1 year, 9 months ago by stack72(20)
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Article that talks about how feature switching can be beneficial to a team and some simple examples to demonstrate it more...
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Development Key Skills (or lack of them!)
paulstack.co.uk published 1 year, 10 months ago by stack72(20)
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A summary of the key skills that I feel is necessary that a developer should have in their core skills. more...
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Software Developer != Zen Warrior
designcoderelease.blogspot.com published 1 year, 10 months ago by Nathan(10)
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Blog post about why we perhaps shouldn't be using the terms kata, dojo and koan more...
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Stop Using Mocks
openmymind.net published 1 year, 11 months ago by Daniel Lee(45)
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Thought provoking article about how to use mocks with C#. By Karl Seguin more...
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Abstraction and OO
davesquared.net published 1 year, 11 months ago by Daniel Lee(45)
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Design guidance for OO abstractions. By Dave Tchepak more...
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Thinking about Hackathons
yobriefca.se published 1 year, 11 months ago by kouphax(105)
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Thoughts and considerations about running a hackathon from a person who has never done one but wants to. Or possibly a cry for help! Who knows. more...
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Poka-yoke Design: From Smell to Fragrance
blog.ploeh.dk published 1 year, 11 months ago by Daniel Lee(45)
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Mark Seeman has a blog series about encapsulation in OO design. This is the introduction to the Poka-yoke series. more...
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Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 5: Easy Configuration
lostechies.com - chadmyers published 1 year, 11 months ago by RobertTheGrey(490)
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Chad Myers explains how they use common patterns to wire up a SettingsProvider making it unobtrusive, easy to manage, and most importantly a breeze to unit test. more...
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Convention over lots of code
lostechies.com - chadmyers published 1 year, 11 months ago by RobertTheGrey(490)
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Chad Myers goes through specific examples of where setting up conventions in their code base instead of repeating the same boilerplate has helped them tremendously in terms of developer productivity. more...

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