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Enums are EVIL!

Early in my C# coding life I actually liked enums. They're neater than C enums (which are glorified int constants) and they're type-safe. But lately I've grown to hate them. To me, they are a leading cause of verbosity in C# code and those...

Published 09-12-2007 11:00 AM by cruizer

Static instances in PHP4

If you've read my previous post s here, you'll notice that I advocate code testability and TDD. One of the key design concepts in achieving this is "inversion of control" or the dependency injection pattern . While I do mostly .NET stuff these days, I...

Published 01-19-2007 9:24 AM by cruizer

Filed under: PHPStuff, TDD, code, agile practices

Smalltalk: "Been here, done that"

The .NET world is eagerly anticipating the release of version 3.5 of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2008 later this month . Naturally there is a build-up of technical discussions, events and online material about the features the new release is...

Published 11-07-2007 2:58 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General, OOP, development tools, Smalltalk

Test-First Demo: Developing a User Login Facility, part 1

OK, so now it's time to "walk the talk." I'll be demo-ing here how to develop a user login facility test first -- how you can begin a test, then code your class to pass that test. Then we'll add one feature or behavior at a time until we completely fulfill...

Published 04-03-2007 12:26 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, agile practices

A look at MonoDevelop's GUI designer for Gtk#

Easy-to-use developer tools have, for the most part, been largely Windows-only. I guess that's not true anymore, what with the latest Eclipse IDE and the up-and-coming MonoDevelop IDE . In case you've been living in another planet for quite some time...

Published 05-09-2006 9:14 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, Open Source

TDD in PHP presentation

Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking about Test Driven Development in front of PHP developers. I had a bit of trouble at first with the projector not playing nice with my cheapo notebook. Too bad that we didn't have much time to cover necessary...

Published 04-29-2007 7:49 AM by cruizer

Filed under: PHPStuff, TDD, presentation, agile practices

Procedural Object-Oriented Programming (POOP)

At some point in one's career, a typical developer would encounter the procedural vs. object-oriented programming (OOP) debates. For instance, this page explains why it is preferable to do procedural programming over OOP, while this page tells of...

Published 07-10-2007 5:59 PM by cruizer

Dell goes Ubuntu!

This is pleasant news: Dell and Ubuntu announced in a joint conference that Dell will be pre-installing Ubuntu 7.04 on some of its desktops and laptops . I have been using Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" 7.04 for over a week now and I am very much impressed...

Published 05-02-2007 12:03 AM by cruizer

Filed under: Open Source, linux

Predictable code

In my early years of programming, performance was everything. These days, since I don't do system-level programming anymore, code maintainability is more important. Of course that doesn't mean to say that it's OK for my code to suck so many...

Published 06-12-2007 7:55 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, code

I hate PHP gotchas

I like PHP , but some of its gotchas are really getting on my nerves. I wonder if any of you have encountered this particular issue that's been causing my hair to fall off lately. One system I did for a client was generating badly-formed reports in...

Published 04-26-2007 4:11 PM by cruizer

Filed under: PHPStuff

Languages make design patterns necessary

In light of observations made here and there , it is becoming clear to me that language limitations play a big part in making design patterns necessary. Or unnecessary . In other words, language deficiencies make it necessary to introduce complexity into...

Published 08-07-2007 4:18 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General, OOP

TDD is even more important when using dynamic languages

I made that observation, while doing PHP TDD-style, in my previous post . In this interview with Dave Astels and Steven Baker , they also note that TDD is a necessity in dynamic languages such as Ruby. Let me quote: It (the compiler, in statically-typed...

Published 04-10-2007 10:39 AM by cruizer

Filed under: TDD, agile practices, Behavior Driven Development

Surprising

That was a surprising email message I received first thing in the morning yesterday. I was awarded MVP for Visual Developer - Visual C#! Pardon the cliche but I really thought it wouldn't happen -- mainly because of my pro-open source stance . Anyway...

Published 07-03-2007 5:19 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General

Thanks, Keith!

The picture says it all...

Published 04-20-2007 5:39 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General

Are you passionate about your employer, or are you passionate about your work?

Nice question posed by Kathy Sierra , author of some of the best-selling "Head First" books for Java.

Published 02-14-2007 10:35 AM by cruizer

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