Design Patterns in the 21st Century: The Chain of Responsibility Pattern

Here’s a thing you might not see a lot. @Test public void hungryHungryPatrons() { KitchenStaff alice = new PieChef(); KitchenStaff…

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Design Patterns in the 21st Century: The Adapter Pattern

This is part three of my talk, Design Patterns in the 21st Century. The Adapter pattern bridges worlds. In one…

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Design Patterns in the 21st Century: The Abstract Factory Pattern

This is part two of my talk, Design Patterns in the 21st Century. This pattern is used everywhere in Java…

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Dangerous Words

Ludwig Wittgenstein was one the greatest philosophers of 20th century. His book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus addresses the limits of language and…

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User Story Guidelines

Disclaimer: This post was extracted from an internal Codurance document used to help our apprentices to learn how we work.…

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Rethinking Pair Programming

By default, we always do our work in pairs. We strongly believe that the quality achieved by two people working…

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Balanced Abstraction Principle

One of the things that make code complicated to read and understand is when the instructions inside a method are…

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The Wrong Notion of Time

No one wakes up in the morning and say “Today I’m gonna screw up. Today I’m gonna piss my boss…

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Best approach to software development

Today, talking about doing a big design up-front (BDUF) sounds a bit ridiculous, right? Who would do that? That’s not…

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