Oversharing on Set Up

Consider the following fictitious test fixture code: beforeEach(() => { databaseConnection = openDatabase(); inputFile = loadBigFile(); userList = loadUserList(); imageData…

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Java Extension Methods

Whither Extension Methods? Apparently, there’s a java dialect called XTend which does this, but there’s no obvious equivalent of extension…

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Composition over Permutations

I’m in the process of reworking an open-source library to make it operate more easily for my use cases. The…

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Not That Sort of Code

Following recent discussion online, I’d like to make what I consider to be an important statement about code. The purpose…

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Refactoring and Changing

One of the definitions of refactoring is to change the structure of the code without changing its behaviour. This requires…

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Saying it with Cucumbers

One of the biggest challenge of using Cucumber is non-technical. Developers don’t like writing in natural language. It makes them…

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The Poison Message SQS Problem

AWS’s SQS is a really reliable and performant solution for transporting requests around a system. A couple of years ago,…

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Keeping the Caller Busy

There are ways we could refactor the displayCart function, but consider a second what the caller is doing each time…

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The Best and Worst of Times

The Horrible Dilemma of Dockerising Databases for Testing When working with database client code you have essentially got 4 options…

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