http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki/97-things-every-software-architect-should-know-the-book This wiki was developed and published in a book available from O’Reilly Press. So far it’s a great read put together by the collective experiences of many seasoned developers. My own favorite so far is: Simplicity before generality, use before reuse. I think the idea of capturing this all by wiki is entirely awesome. [...]
Mar 192009
I’ve been reviewing a lot of blog sites lately reguarding testing and unit test practices. One I ran across this morning entitled “Extract and Override refactoring techinque” caught my eye on Taswar Bhatti’s Blog. Don’t get me wrong here, I tried to read this objectively and understand where he was coming from; however, I am [...]
Mar 182009
This is the one, the only, the quintessential rule to programming. AKA, the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid) is, to me, words to live by. From the implementation of a simple class to the design of a complex application you constantly have to keep this in the forefront of your mind. Far too often I [...]
Mar 182009
Found an interesting post over on ISerializable – Roy Osherove’s Blog that outlines a few of the things that should be considered when designing software component interfaces. To re-summarize and add my own two cents worth here they are in my own order of importance. Resilience – (the best single-word description I can come up with) [...]