Darren HobbsDarren's take on open source, agile methods, technology and anything else that springs to mind.Mistakes you will make in software- April 24, 2007 Almost without fail I see certain errors repeated on every single software project I come across. The projects that successfully dodge these pitfalls almost always do so because someone on the team fell into them once before and swore they wouldn't do so again. Those of you who haven't yet been burned by this class of error will almost certainly protest about complexity or wierd design choices in the code made by those who have. Who are these heinous kingpins of crime in the bug ghettos of...http://www.darrenhobbs.com/archives/2007/04/mistakes_you_wi.html Feed me- April 24, 2007 It's been kindly pointed out that my feeds and half my category links are broken and have been for a while. Probably nobody is left who still actually uses a browser to read blogs, but, as this dovetails rather precisely with my assumptions about readership size; and faffing with moveable type templates rates somewhat lower than not, it may take a while before it all gets sorted. Apologies to anyone who's still committed enough to make the effort, I'll try and get round to sorting it.http://www.darrenhobbs.com/archives/2007/04/feed_me.html Tiny Types- April 11, 2007 There's a pattern I've used with great success a couple of times now that tends to provoke strong reactions in developers when they first see it. I've had comments along the lines of "that's horrible!", "ugh" and "that's way too much work". The pattern is this: the encapsulation of simple built-in types within domain specific classes. Sounds simple and it is. Lets take a concrete example: public class Customer private final String firstName; private final String familyName; ...http://www.darrenhobbs.com/archives/2007/04/strong_typing_a.html |