Single Reponsibility Principle
4 Jan 2009
I have a draft post explaining the Single Responsibility Principle that I’ve been working on for the last couple of months. I’ve just never been able to find a simple way to explain it that’s not open to misinterpretation.
Margin Guides in Visual Studio
6 Jan 2009
visual-studio
To set a margin guide in Visual Studio requires a minor Registry Hack (usual warnings apply - stuff up your Registry and your machine is hosed. Take precautions.)
On NNPPs
10 Jan 2009
professional
Jay Fields has a recent post “The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers”, in which he laments the high impact of NNPPs and the lack of any industry structure that encourages them to leave the field.
Going to Oslo
17 Jan 2009
technology
I’ve started looking into Oslo, the new model driven architecture from Microsoft. In many ways, Oslo looks promising – finally, a way to move to a higher level of abstraction. If they do this right, they really could achieve their goal of improving developer productivity 10x.
The importance of Attitude
19 Jan 2009
professional
I’m finding that attitude and intent make an important contribution to the code I write.
New Year, New Look
24 Jan 2009
admin
With the arrival of a New Year, I thought it was time to update the look of the site a little. After a couple of weeks effort and tweaking, you can now see the result - hope you like it!
Readonly vs. Disabled
26 Jan 2009
ux
Leon Brambrick has a recent post talking about how people make readonly fields less readable.
Swiss SRP
28 Jan 2009
random
Over on Los Techies, Gabriel Schenker has an excellent post (Real Swiss don’t need SRP) showing the Single Responsibility Principle in action - refactoring some existing code from muddled mess to SRP fineness.
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