As I have stated before, I am amazed at how an organizations culture (read: dysfunctions) are reflected in their source control systems. This is a really a restatement of Don Norman’s assertion, which says, "The design of a software system reflects the culture of the organization that created it." So, not to belabor a point, […]
Read MoreRay Houston has written this post on his blog named Single-Responsibility Versus Needless Complexity. His post contains the following code sample of which he suspects that it possibly violates the Single Responsibility Principle: public bool Login(string username, string password) { var user = userRepo.GetUserByUsername(username); if(user == null) return false; if (loginValidator.IsValid(user, password)) return true; user.FailedLoginAttempts++; […]
Read MoreIn my last post, I showed a bit of code that would take any list, array, diction, or IEnumerable implementer, and return a delimited string. My solution created a StringBuilder, then looped thru the list, adding the values to the StringBuilder each time. Then, finishing up, remove the last delimiter. The other solution is to […]
Read MoreTeam System If you want to see history on a file across branches, this tool helps a lot. The default history dialogs in Team Explorer do not let you do this. Any branching model besides Branch for Purpose (BFP) is almost not supported in TFS SCC. This is forgivable considering BFP is a very flexible […]
Read MoreThis has probably been done before, but I thought I would post my implementation. Take a given generic list (or something that implements IEnumerable, and convert it to a delimited string. First, in a static class, (I have a class called GeneralExtensions for just this sort of thing), add this code. 1: public static string […]
Read MoreI just finished reading the magnificent book Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. I must say, if I would have a software company of my own, then I would force all my employees to read this book. Make no mistake about it. If you have anything to do with reading or writing […]
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