Friday, 18 October 2013

Start C# Enumerations at 1

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Coming from a background in C/C++ I was brought up with the problems of uninitialised variables, which, through the use of better compiler w...
Thursday, 17 October 2013

Codebase Stability With Feature Toggles

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Whilst at Agile Cambridge a few weeks ago I got involved in a brief discussion about using Feature Toggles instead of Feature Branches . T...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Concrete Interfaces

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Back at the end of last year I wrote a blog post titled “ Interfaces Are Not the Only Abstract Fruit ”. At the time I was bemoaning the use ...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Extension Methods Should Behave Like Real Methods

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The other day I was involved in two discussions about Extension Methods in C#. The second was an extension (pun intended) of the first as a ...
Saturday, 21 September 2013

The Battle Between Continuity & Progress

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One of the hardest decisions I think we have to make when maintaining software is to decide whether the change we’re making can be done in a...
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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Letting Go - Player/Manager Syndrome

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I’ve been following Joe Duffy’s blog for some time and this year he started a series on Software Leadership. In his first post he covered ...

Virtual Methods in C# Are a Design Smell

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I came to C# after having spent 15 years writing applications and services in C++. In C++ there is no first class concept for “interfaces” i...