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.…

MicroObjects Driving Principle? (Part 3)

[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] - [ Part 4 [https://quinngil.com/2019/07/02/untitled-14microobjects-driving-principle-p4/]] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Represent All Concepts Let's continue our exploration of how the MicroObjects technical practices [https://quinngil.…

MicroObjects Driving Principle? (Part 2)

[Part 1 [https://quinngil.com/2019/06/13/microobjects-driving-principle-p1/]] - [Part 2] - [Part 3 [https://quinngil.com/2019/06/25/microobjects-driving-principle-p3/]] - [ Part 4 [https://quinngil.com/2019/07/02/untitled-14microobjects-driving-principle-p4/]] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Represent All Concepts Let's continue our exploration of how the MicroObjects technical practices [https://quinngil.…

MicroObjects Driving Principle? (Part 1)

[Part 1] - [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 [https://quinngil.com/2019/07/02/untitled-14microobjects-driving-principle-p4/]] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had a fantastic chat with a colleague about the MicroObjects technical practices at lunch yesterday. Well.…

XP 2019 : Experience Report

I presented twice at XP 2019! One of them was about the MicroObjects technical practices [https://xp2019.sched.com/event/MeRr/technical-practices-for-sustainable-code-quinn-gil] . Which was fantastic! It's a great opportunity to share what I've found useful! This post is about the second presentation; the experience report. I…

Efforts to start using Smalltalk

I met Suzanne Fortman [https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-fortman-7033a611/] from Cincom [http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/] at XP2019 [https://www.agilealliance.org/xp2019/] and had som great conversations about SmallTalk and the community. I decided to download ObjectStudio to play with the product and maybe actually get to write some…