My Thoughts: Spike to Refactor
When you're stuck on how to do TDD for a refactor; and can't find the test to drive the refactor you'd like to see; a spike can often help. What I've done are a spike w/o tests to figure out a…
JWT Token Validation in C#
(and not doing it wrong) A blog post directly tied to something I'm doing at work - Like researching something FOR WORK!!! Not just related to, or ancillary to; but actual research for actual work. Crazy, I know. The basic premise is that we're doing OAuth…
Android HackerNews App : Refactor to Clean Architecture
A philosophy I like and have made a(n unknowingly) passive effort to implement before is called "Clean Architecture". It's the idea of an application having dependencies that flow "outward". Go read The Clean Architecture [https://8thlight.com/blog/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-architecture.…
HackerNews Android - Let's not crash
As discovered in our last session - Opening a lot of connections breaks things. The creation of the OkHttpClient is done in HackerNewsNetwork#getClient... ugg... A get. Ruthless refactoring! As I was saying; the creation is done in HackernewsNetwork#httpClient. private OkHttpClient httpClient() { return interceptorObj == null ? new OkHttpClient() : new OkHttpClient(…
Interface Overloading - TDD Against UI
WTF... ... is interface overloading. Or Overriding. I kinda toggle between the terms. Right now I'm favoring Interface Overloading; so that's what the title is. Interface Overloading Interface overloading is the process I've found in C# and JAVA and Swift to allow TDD when using…
Code Kata - Bowling BlackJack
As an exercise; I'm doing a CodeKata... well... working on extending a code kata via BlackJack. We've done the kata for Bowling. Now we're going to extend it to include BlackJack scoring. BlackJack is a fairly simple game to score. You have points between…
HackerNews Android - Get a Job
The Top Stories apparently can include job postings. I have the StoryAdapter only accepting responses that have the type of "story". We need to build up a path for Jobs because it's in the payload. Well... mostly because it crashes the app when I scroll. Network…
My Thoughts: Android App Development
I'm blogging because I'm not seeing resources that covers the things I've been asked; or that I've worked out myself (like an upcoming post about maintaining Object Encapsulation). I also blog so I can google my brain later for myself or to…