Technical Practices: Never Return Your Data

No Getters That's the normal form of this technical practice. No Getters There's some uncertainity around what "No Getters" means. OK, there's two versions of it. Yegor Bugayenko in Elegant Objects Vol. 1 [https://quinngil.com/2017/08/06/book-review-elegant-objects-vol-1/] says, >…

µObjects: Unit Testable UI Interactions

This is a follow up to the Hotel Pattern [https://quinngil.com/2017/07/09/the-hotel-pattern-2/] which I've pretty much abandoned, though it's concepts and ideas have evolved into my current practices. It ties into the Interface Overload [https://quinngil.com/2017/05/21/interface-overloading/] mechanism…

Patterns: Null Object

I've covered never having nulls [https://quinngil.com/2017/10/15/uobjects-no-nulls/] and that's what the NullObject [http://wiki.c2.com/?NullObject] pattern is here to help us with. The NullObject pattern is one that I tried to implement earlier in my career (mostly after reading…

My Thoughts: Pass through vs Base class

A conflict that has come up a few times is using composition and a pass through or a base class I favor pass through; I write it that way Everytime. The other engineer on the project favors a base class. Here's an example of what we've…

My Thoughts: 'Interface' isn't harmful

My thoughts about Object Oriented Programming has evolved over the years. Especially in the past 6 months. My development of MicroObjects has caused a lot of thinking about Object Oriented Programming and how to develop better and more maintainable software. A lot of great discussions that have certainly helped drive…

µObject Poker: Scoring a Hand

I found I'm not a huge fan of the video. I don't tend to put a lot of time and effort into each post; it's an opportunity for me to share research and experimentation with the world; as well as give myself a searchable…

M:TG Game - Event Bussing

I've been pondering how to do some µObjects in a more intelligent system for a while. I'm going to try to use Magic: The Gathering for this. Much like the poke one; the idea here is to explore µObjects and how they can be applied in…

µObjects: Being CLEAN

Beyond Legacy Code's CLEAN I've read David Bernstein [https://twitter.com/ToBeAgile]'s Beyond Legacy Code [https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Legacy-Code-Practices-Software/dp/1680500791] and clearly enjoyed it. :) One of the concepts he expands on in the book is "Clean Code". He takes this…