We're at the point we need to do something with the Story we're displaying. Or the job. Either one. My thoughts on this is to have two actions. A tap and a swipe. The swipe is going to require a change in the list itself (I…
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…
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…
I'm blogging because I'm not seeing resources that covers the things I've been asked; or that I've worked out myself (like an upcoming post about maintaining Object Encapsulation). I also blog so I can google my brain later for myself or to…
We're continuing our work towards understanding how we can have near 100% test coverage. I get pretty annoyed at the Activity class sitting there at super low percentages and feeling like there's nothing I should do. Not that I feel there's nothing I can…
A recent comment on the blog had me start to implement a Formatter for the Android HackerNews app. I did work on it and realized quickly that I had no idea what I was doing. Not that I can't code (ehhhh...); I had no requirements driving it. I…
There's actually a reason I put VBM in the title of this series. And aside from some lightweight organization of the UI layer, a major aspect to the VBM structure is utilizing the mediator as the layer to encapsulate any logic branching code and protect the rest of…
I'm sitting at the gymnastic studio reading "The Pragmatic Programmer" (for the 5th-ish time) and it talks about an approach to code. Can you guess what? Our industry refers to it as construction, "building" software. "Engineer". I care about the code in…