TCR C#
test && commit || revert With minmal looking, I haven't found a way to do it effectively for C#. So, I'm going to create my own. Kent Beck kicked off this idea. I'm not sure if it's this post [https://medium.com/…
Don't Start Micro
I really need to start a video series on writing some code as MicroObjects. The way I would when I don't have a good grasp of the domain. It's come up multiple times that someone likes the idea of where microobjects goes, but they really don&…
Sealed or Abstract
One of the personal practices I have when writing C# code is that my classes are either sealed or abstract. This really started with MicroObjects, but I've had the notion of it before. Sealed classes were hard to test... so I stopped, before. Why I've changed…
Discovery Tree - A Simple and Natural Way of Story Creation, Project Tracking and Shared Ownership
Now a Discovery Tree 2021/04/15 Update After some discussion and feedback, we got the idea of calling this a Discovery Tree instead of either Feature Tree or Feature Mapping. > It is in the doing of the work that we discover the work that we must do. Doing…
Roam Research
I discovered Roam Research [https://roamresearch.com/] a few days ago. I've been using it a bit. Not as in depth as I'd like. Not for work, which is probably slowing down the power. My favorite thing so far is that I can make associations without…
A dislike of Inheritance
While working on some Object Oriented training, I found myself in some cognitive disagreement. I was flip-flopping between two implementations. One used inheritance, one used composition. If you follow along much, you'll know that I'm very strongly on the use composition side. There are a…
Why (not) TDD?
Shu Late 2016 I joined a team that was, essentially, an XP team. Over the next 2 years we adapted and morphed our practices. We were very big on the experimentation. There were a couple practices that we held onto through all it all because of the value they added.…
NullObject - A Super Power
I've been 'aware' of an awesome feature from using the NullObject pattern since I really started using them. I didn't realize what that feature was until I had to explain it to a colleague today. I say it a lot, maybe not here, but…