How To Create Immutability for More Maintainability Our goal as software developers is to produce code that can be easily maintained. This is frequently a challenge; as writing good code is hard. µObjects is a way of Object Oriented Programming that I've found gives us this. There are…
Maintainability By Refusing null Our goal as software developers is to produce code that can be easily maintained. This is frequently a challenge; as writing good code is hard. µObjects is a way of Object Oriented Programming that I've found gives us this. There are a number of…
What is a µObject (micro-object)? It's a tiny object. Not a small object with a single responsibility - A µObject does one thing. Let me show with a simple example. If we have a method with a guard clause and then it does something; say Write "Hello…
In Elegant Objects Vol 1 [https://quinngil.com/2017/08/06/book-review-elegant-objects-vol-1/] most chapters have an associated blog post. I've read the book and as clear by my review [https://quinngil.com/2017/08/06/book-review-elegant-objects-vol-1/], I'm a big fan. A lot of co-workers and colleagues…
Get it, "Hops", 'cause "Rabbit". They "hop". HAH! ... I've started writing some code to explore an idea I've had bubbling around for... I think close to two years now. It's undergone a number of iterations, and discussions…
(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…
I've been working very hard to not accept excuses for not having tests on something. I want to be able to TDD as close to 100% of an Android app as possible. I currently have a few areas I need to develop techniques to enable TDDing. One of…
OK - Looks like we've gotten to the point where building out a UI is gonna be a good next step. We need to know what we want to see to know what app innards to build up. Sure, sure "Top Stories"; but honestly, I have…