Mocking as a Design Tool

Mocking is still a point on contention among TDD practitioners. The biggest complaint is that when we use mocks the…

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Should we always use TDD to design?

Can design emerge from TDD? Should we always use TDD to design software? Should we design upfront? How much design…

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Introducing Interaction-Driven Design

Before reading this post, I strongly recommend you read the two previous blog posts that serve as a foundation to…

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A case for Outside-In Development

There is no reason to have a backend when there is no front-end. There is no reason to have an…

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MVC, Delivery Mechanism and Domain Model

Model-View-Controller (or MVC for short) is one of the most misunderstood design patterns in software design. MVC has its origins in the…

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Bowling Kata in Clojure, F# and Scala

In one of our evening apprenticeship meetings, a pair was doing the Bowling Kata in Java. After reviewing their code,…

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We did it wrong, but not all was in vain

Yes, there was over engineering. Loads of it. Back in the mid 90s, when I started my career as a…

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Mutual Problems

The HTTPS protocol is the well-established standard for securing our connections. Understanding how this protocol works is not a problem…

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Containers all the way through

In this post I will attempt to cover fundamentals of Bare Metal Systems, Virtual Systems and Container Systems. And the…

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