Kathleen Dollard in the house!Well, that's a wrap! DEVintersection is over after a long week of sessions, technical difficulties, and an intense all-day workshop. I'm back in my hotel room at the MGM Grand, but we need to talk about everything that happened this week before I inevitably forget.…
photo from hacktoberfest.digitalocean.comIt's that time again! For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is put on by DigitalOcean and GitHub as a means to celebrate open source software and to get more people involved in contributing to open source projects.Getting InvolvedSo how can you get involved? Well, I'm…
Recently I stumbled across a test driven development article that mentioned something I had not heard before. It's a premise that Uncle Bob came up with as a means to order the priority of the transformations you should apply when practicing test driven development. He called it the Transformation Priority…
Let me set the scene for you.It's the morning of June 14th, 6:30am to be exact, and we're going to make a standards deployment. You know how I know? Because it's Wednesday. And Wednesday morning is the morning that we usually make standards deployments. Monday is just too…
Yeah that's right. That behemoth of a document that you call your standards document just does not matter. Now that's a pretty bold statement, so let me explain.I believe that a standards document should be about how to style code. It should be about where to place curly braces,…
In your travels as a programmer, you will more than likely come across a body of code that looks a little something like the following:public bool CheckSystem(Computer computer) { if (computer.Ghz < 3) { return false; } if (computer.Ram < 4) { return false; } if (computer.DiskSpace < 10) { return…
Earlier this morning, I was reminded of an incident that I had with a customer a couple years ago. It went a little something like this:I was working on a web application. It consisted of a tabular grid that displayed information based on search criteria. Very similar to anything…
Full disclosure, I really don't like comments.Like any feature of a language, I believe they have their purpose. After all, they were put in the language in the first place. I've just seen a lot of incorrect uses of comments, and the more I run into them, the more…
It's a typical day in the office. You've spent your day writing top notch unit tests and elegant code. You sit back, marvel at what you have accomplished and decide, being that good developer that you are, that maybe you should do some functional testing.You navigate to the Debug…
When exposing properties of a class, you may find yourself immediately exposing a public getter and a public setter. This is a very common approach, especially in anemic models. However, this approach can be problematic when applied to collections. Allowing consumers of your collection to freely modify the entire collection…