The OldWood Thing

Our team has recently grown and as part of that process I’ve been showing how I’ve tended to do some of the sysadmin type stuff, such as dep...

In my last post I talked about using the Execute Around Method pattern to implement a common Big Outer Try Block to handle exceptions that...

I first came across the pattern Execute Around Method at an ACCU London talk by Paul Grenyer . The talk was about factoring out all the bo...

I’ve been having a bit of a clean-up in our codebase as I know of various large bits of functionality that for one reason or another never m...

In my recent post The Public Interface of a Database I talked about using User Defined Types and how I believe they help make the interface...

None of the popular programming languages that I know of allow you to overload a method based on error semantics. A common pattern to workar...

If you look at our system’s production configuration settings you would be fooled into thinking that we only need a simple configuration mec...