“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Athur C. Clarke While reviewing some code, I stumbled upon a class that receives an ObservableCollection<ILogFormatter> in the constructor. I discovered that this […]
Recently I’ve got another reminder why constructors should be simple. The situation in a nutshell: class BaseHandler subscribes to an observable in its constructor. The handler is virtual, class DerviedHandler adds incoming […]
Remoting is about distributed objects, while WCF is about services. Remoting is capable of passing object instances between the client and the server, WCF is not. This distinction is much […]
One large company that shall remain nameless runs a 4-year old version of Git, TortoiseGit, and a lot of other tools, and can’t upgrade. Being a large company, it can’t […]
Big corporations love uniformity: things are much easier to manage if they are all alike. But then they may also fail all at the same time, with catastrophic consequences. Remember […]
TL;DR Dynamic “semver” versioning is evil, because it makes it too easy to break things on a global scale. With semver versioning the builds are not-repeatable: you may get one version […]
Just found this in production code: var fa = new FileAsset { Hash = tempFile.Hash, Length = tempFile.Length, CreatedOn = DateTime.UtcNow, Data = tempFile.Data, CompressedLength = tempFile.Length, Name = tempFile.FileName, […]
If anyone tells you unit tests are a waste of time, send them to this post. I am in the middle of some major refactoring of our bills generator. Billing, […]
In a piece of code I inherited from some smart, well meaning, but a little disorganized East European consultants, I found the following class hierarchy: RestClient (abstract) JsonClient (abstract) XyzClient* […]
Two parables about the YAGNI principle: both true stories. Long time ago in a company far far away there was a piece of software. Every time we designed a new […]
