Not JUST blogging?

Something that's been brought up to me, repeatedly, is if I can show how I do things. My style of coding is something that isn't common. It's well recognized by experienced developers as something they used to great success in the past. It'…

More SmallTalk

OK - Take number 5? I think this is take number 5 at working with SmallTalk. I'm using Cincom VisualWorks [http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/products/visualworks/]. It was demo'd by [Carl Gundel] at a Seattle Software Crafter Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/seattle-software-craftsmanship/events/nhjtqqyzkbhc/…

Agile 2019

I'm at Agile 2019. I don't have a post written up for this week; so I'm pre-planning this no-op post. Since January 2018, I've gone from knowing zero people at conferences to having had face to face conversations with 31 of them.…

Awaiting Objects

Hmm... Fluent types vs Type Types awaiting vs method As part of the Principle of MicroObjects, Represent ALL Concepts, we still need to manipulate the data; at some point; or pass data to 3rd party libraries as primitives. We need to get the raw data. How do we do get…

Struggle To Code

I typically code a lot. With a recent role change, not so much at work. To compensate, because I need to code, I have a side project I'm working on. While working on various aspects of this, I've found a recurring theme. I don't…

The Murky Path

Uncle Bob has a post on his blog from a while back called "The Dark Path [https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/11/TheDarkPath.html]". I've personally had an interesting journey with this post. It's taken another turn as I read about the…

Technical Practices: No Public Statics

I've had this sitting in my queue for over a year. Waiting for some day when I have some thoughts on it. Is today that day... Ehh... Probably not. I'm going to try anyway. I'm writing this the same day I wrote the "…

MicroObjects Driving Principle? (Part 4)

[Part 1 [https://quinngil.com/2019/06/13/microobjects-driving-principle-p1/]] - [Part 2 [https://quinngil.com/2019/06/18/microobjects-driving-principle-p2/]] - [Part 3 [https://quinngil.com/2019/06/25/microobjects-driving-principle-p3/]] - [Part 4] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Represent All Concepts Let's continue our exploration of how the MicroObjects technical practices [https://quinngil.…