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First 10 minutes of the day: review and refactor
Do you want to know something that works really really well for me? I spend the first 10 to 15 minutes of the day reading the code I (or we) wrote the day before. I always find out something to...
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A method is an abstraction
The name of a method must have a higher level of abstraction than the body for the method to be worth it. The name should explain what the method does but not how. If the name communicates exactly the...
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Refactoring towards a meaningful domain model
Today has been a special day. Not because it's my 34th Birthday which I never really celebrate (although I do appreciate all the greetings and warm words from all my friends and family!) but because...
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DTO vs Domain Models – Part II
As we learn more about the business and the domain we are taking the time to improve the design of the software. The first handful of features have been deployed into production, now it's a good time...
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Polymorphic Equality
The default generation of Equality members provided by Resharper let you choose three different implementations when overriding the "Equals" method in a class (Alt+Insert -> Equality Members): The...
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Remove data structures noise from your tests with builders
Among other qualities good tests should be easy to read, quick to understand. When the test requires complex data structures to be sent to the SUT or to be part of a stubbed answer, it takes longer to...
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Using C# Collections
There are many ways to work with collections. We are following Microsoft Guidelines for Collections plus some ideas that Kent Beck explains in Implementation Patterns. I've created a repository with...
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EventBus in a Windows 8 app
How to communicate different pages of a Windows 8 App? How to manage the life cycle of the pages? Pages are instantiated by the framework when asked to navigate: *.xaml.cs:...
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Object references, state and side effects
C#, Java and other languages have the same behaviour when it comes to reference types. public class SomeClass { public string someField;} var instance1 = new SomeClass(); // instance1 is a reference to...
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Learning with Peter
Last week I was lucky to host my good friend Peter Kofler in his visit to Gran Canaria, where he came to facilitate the Glodal Day of Code Retreat and also to work together a couple of days in our...
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