I've had a lot of discussions around applying the MicroObject technical practices [https://quinngil.com/uobjects] to legacy code. "These practices are clearly great for new code, but how can we work them into our existing code?" Even if it's not your definition of…
James Shore [https://twitter.com/jamesshore] has a post, Testing Without Mocks [https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Testing-Without-Mocks.html], that I've recently been introduced to. Skimming through the introduction of the post, it looks like the goals of this align well with what MicroObjects give us…
I have a GitHub project FluentTypes [https://github.com/Fyzxs/FluentTypes] which I've written about before [https://quinngil.com/2018/03/11/uobjects-fluent-types/]. The goal is to avoid the problems of Primitive Obsession. We want to represent what we're thinking. After working in MicroObjects…
The legacy code I'm playing with at work had some nice future proofing. It wasn't quite big design up front, but it was some future proofing. I got some out, but there's still a whole level of abstraction that's pending removal. I&…
When refactoring from a large to small API, use interfaces for the new methods, but leave the old public IFF they are well tested. Its not worth re-working all the tests when they're hidden by using the interface This is a short little post about a small…
Working in legacy code makes it clear how important refactoring is to maintainability. I'll go so far with the importance of Refactoring to say, "If the code isn't refactored, it isn't maintainable." Clearly I think this is a huge thing. One of…
What is a DataBag? I consider a databag any object that primarily acts as transportation for data. In C++, this would be a struct. Ignoring any associated functions, the data's exposed and being passed around. Java would represent a databag by a class with primarily get/set methods…
This is me going through the Android recommendations on how to do databinding. As with A LOT of practices that increase the complexity and harm maintainability; databinding and the recommendations enable, perceived, QUICK development, but it has such a high cost afterwards; there WILL be re-writes. It won'…