I see High Cohesion as a key component of getting single responsibility into code. Hopefully it's clear from my blogging that there's far more to it than just one thing, but a class that is does not have High Cohesion cannot have a single responsibility. Why is that? A class…
No Primities. My idea with not using the default data types centers around them being data storage. Working on object oriented langauges, we don't need to be concerned about the raw data storage mechanism. We deal with objects that communicate with each other, not raw data we process. Then how…
I don't remember exactly where or who, but writing re-usable code was impressed upon me as an important thing I now completely disagree with that. Do not write reusable code. One of the worst things you can do when writing code is to make it "re-usable" before you…
Encapsulation - it's a huge part of what allows us to be highly effective developers. It's what MicroObjects is about. Encapsulation is the highest thing to strive for when striving to write good code. If we encapsulate our data so effectively that we can never just access the data... how…
I'm working on ways I can share the practices and mindset that allows me to create MicroObjects. One of the suggestions I've gotten from a co-worker, John, was to create as simple of a project as possible and show my steps to breaking it into MicroObjects. FizzBuzz as a project…
I got Java By Comparison from Amazon a while ago. I wasn't impressed with what my initial page flipping showed me. I skimmed it and largely evaluated based on name and example code. Feel free to ignore my review based on the fact I skimmed. Any Code Crafter book has…
Some friends and I play D&D through Fantasy Grounds. It's a great app, we have a lot of fun playing through it. While we start getting used to it; there's been interest in being able to make custom things. From a couple friends who've tried to do this…
NOTE: I'm hoping this serves as my reference point for answering questions about my thoughts on NoEstimates. I'll probably expand it over time as I get more data. 2018-07-05 - Initial Writing 2018-07-09.A - Clarifying the lack fo seeing arguments. 2018-07-09.B - Clarifying why arguments against the possibility…
The HackerNews Reader app is a project I'm using to practice and beat new concepts into my head. It's not quite proof of concept level - because I understand the concepts; it's a playground of sorts. Originally it was a place to practice TDD and implement the now named Hotel…
NOTE: This was written about a year before posting. Churning I've been putting off working on the UWP app for a while. Part of it is routine change due to summer. The larger part is that I don't really know UI Widgets in UWP well (or any platform) and have…