There's a lot of tools that exist to make what developers to easier to do. If it's something we do a lot, we tend to find ways to have something do it for us. I've done it. I'll probably do it again. I built a little tool to automate the…
There's a lot of tools that exist to make what developers to easier to do. If it's something we do a lot, we tend to find ways to have something do it for us. I've done it. I'll probably do it again. I built a little tool to automate the…
I've had a lot of discussions around applying the MicroObject technical practices to legacy code. "These practices are clearly great for new code, but how can we work them into our existing code?" Even if it's not your definition of legacy code; it can probably be refactored -…
James Shore has a post, Testing Without Mocks, that I've recently been introduced to. Skimming through the introduction of the post, it looks like the goals of this align well with what MicroObjects give us in terms of testability. I'm going to go through the article and post my thoughts…
I have a GitHub project FluentTypes which I've written about before. The goal is to avoid the problems of Primitive Obsession. We want to represent what we're thinking. After working in MicroObjects style and using the style represented by the Fluent Types; I found a new way. To my credit,…
The legacy code I'm playing with at work had some nice future proofing. It wasn't quite big design up front, but it was some future proofing. I got some out, but there's still a whole level of abstraction that's pending removal. I'm not here to write about what I haven't…
When refactoring from a large to small API, use interfaces for the new methods, but leave the old public IFF they are well tested. Its not worth re-working all the tests when they're hidden by using the interface This is a short little post about a small thing I did…
Working in legacy code makes it clear how important refactoring is to maintainability. I'll go so far with the importance of Refactoring to say, "If the code isn't refactored, it isn't maintainable." Clearly I think this is a huge thing. One of the definitions of "Legacy Code&…
What is a DataBag? I consider a databag any object that primarily acts as transportation for data. In C++, this would be a struct. Ignoring any associated functions, the data's exposed and being passed around. Java would represent a databag by a class with primarily get/set methods around data.…
This is me going through the Android recommendations on how to do databinding. As with A LOT of practices that increase the complexity and harm maintainability; databinding and the recommendations enable, perceived, QUICK development, but it has such a high cost afterwards; there WILL be re-writes. It won't be refactorable…