Ineffective Java

Perhaps I can be replaced by a robot for code review. There are some bits of feedback I find myself…

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What are we Testing Again?

This is a general case around Test Data in the Test Smells. Let’s have a look at a test snippet:…

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Chain of Memory Hogs

As we saw in The Structural Bug, the composition of functions can itself be a problem. On top of that,…

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Small Simple Things

Definition of Software Development Success You can’t build a huge perfect thing all in one go. You can’t work in…

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Stop Writing Comments

This should go without saying, but it doesn’t. We should treat a comment as though it’s a danger signal. A…

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The Structural Bug

A team member was having a bit of trouble with the following code: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07…

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Talking Around Your Docs

We don’t write comments. The code is self documenting. The people who say that they don’t write comments are 95%…

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The Three Stages of Knowledge

In software development, knowing how to do things seems to fall into three stages. Ok… let’s pretend it does, it’s…

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Field Notes from an Ad-Hoc Jenkins Pipeline

I recently had a challenge. I have written a PR to improve an open source library, but the owners of…

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