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Monday, 30 January 2017

Dumbing Down Code

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A conversation with a colleague, which was originally sparked off by “ C# BAD PRACTICES: Learn how to make a good code by bad example ” (an ...
Thursday, 26 January 2017

Journey Code

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In the move from a Waterfall approach to a more Agile way of working we need to learn to be more comfortable with our software being in a le...
Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Weak and Strong Idempotency

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In my recent post “ PUT vs POST and Idempotency ” I touched on the different degrees of idempotency. In retrospect I think it’s better to d...
Tuesday, 17 January 2017

The Cost of Long-Lived Feature Branches

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Many moons ago I was working at large financial organisation on one of their back office systems. The ever increasing growth of the business...
Monday, 12 December 2016

Surprising Defaults – HttpClient ExpectContinue

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One of the things you quickly discover when moving from building services on-premise to “the cloud” is quite how many more bits of wire and ...
Thursday, 17 November 2016

Overly Prescriptive Tests

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In my recent post “ Tautologies in Tests ” I adapted one of Einstein’s apocryphal sayings and suggested that tests should be “as precise as ...
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Tuesday, 15 November 2016

In The Toolbox – Season Two

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As I pointed out in my blog post that collates Season One of my In The Toolbox C Vu column I never intended to write more than a couple o...
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Chris Oldwood
Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
A freelance C# & C++ programmer with 30 years experience writing applications and services primarily on Windows.
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