Welcome to the Hotel! The Hotel pattern is a UI pattern I've started using based off a few things. A big one is my disdain of existing UI pattern and the poor Object Oriented Design patterns they encourage and fascilitate. Another is the focus on software craftsmanship and…
> My tests are slow! They were slow anyway... Part of the Ruthless Refactoring I've been doing while working on the HackerNews App has been to improve the performance of the unit tests. I easily shaved off a second from the tests during the "Clean Architecture"…
Following the example of the VBM on Android series; I'm going to develop a HackerNews Reader for the Windows phone/UWP. This should be interesting as I've never done a UWP app before. This will be my first foray into it! SO EXCITED!!! Getting Started Visual…
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…
(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…
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.…
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(…
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…