Respect your test code #2: Create base classes for your test fixtures
When writing code, I often end up introducing a layer supertype – i.e. a base class with functionality shared by all implementations in that particular layer in my application. This also holds for my...
View ArticleRespect your test code #3: Make your tests orthogonal
When two things are orthogonal, it means that the angle between them is 90 degrees – at least in spaces with 3 dimensions or less. So when two vectors are orthogonal, they satisfy the property that...
View ArticleAn opinion on “integrated solutions” like TFS and VSTS
As a response to Ben Scheirman’s post, Benjamin Day kindly apologized and summed up why he likes Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server. I am not going into the debate on whether it was...
View ArticleOrthogonality (again)
There’s one thing, that almost always makes we want to assume the foetal position and cry: developers, who are ignorant to the fact that there is a difference between application logic and application...
View ArticleIt’s just annoying that Joel Spolsky is such is great writer…
…because I almost never agree with him! For instance, in this post – inspired by the book, Coders At Work – he describes the character he calls “the duct tape programmer”, who is the archetype of that...
View ArticleHow to loop good
…or “Short rant on why C-style for-loops are almost always unnecessary “… If you’ve been with C# for the last couple of years, your coding style has probably evolved in a more functional direction...
View ArticleIf you can draw it like that, then just f*n code it like that!
Recently, I was asked whether I had any pet peeves. I thought about it for a couple of seconds, and since I couldn’t immediately think of anything, I just ranted a little bit about some of the minor...
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I judge developers by how many toolbars are showing in their IDE
Usually, I try not to be judgmental about stuff. I like to keep my mind open and to accept people as the beautifully unique snowflakes they are… or something… There’s one thing that irritates me...
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I am not usually that judgmental
but I did write a blog post called “I judge developers by how many toolbars are showing in their IDE”, which could also have been called “if you reach for the mouse, you are n00b scum to me”. I wrote...
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Rewrite things
There is a piece of advice in the software development world, which is pretty clearly expressed in this blog post by Joel Spolsky. It basically says that you should never rewrite your code from...
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