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16 JUL 09
Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Part 1: Why - new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); - SAVE
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"Having worked in a Branch-Per-Feature mode for almost a year now, I am all but refusing to work in any other way. I no longer have to worry about other developers clobbering my WIP. I no longer have to worry about clobbering their WIP. I can deliver my build to the BA or Test environment, without fear of someone else’s feature being half-done and getting invalid tickets entered against my feature. I can even do a complete release to production based on a single feature being complete, at this point."TAGS
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15 JUL 09
The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise SAVE
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"Recently I read a discussion on an internal mailing list on whether or not it would be worthwhile to add a null dereferencing operator to C#."TAGS
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10 JUL 09
this.Reflect(); | Unit Testing you Container Dependencies SAVE
"When developing with an inversion of control container (I use Windsor) its sometimes difficult to detect if your instances in your container are creatable or not. A lot of times this is determined when you run the app, you’ll get an exception informing you that your object does not have all of its dependencies fulfilled. Therefore…the real question is … Did you register everything in the container? Or did you forget something?"TAGS
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jaredpar's WebLog : Code Smell: Psychic classes SAVE
"Psychic classes have the appearance of ignoring data provided to it in an attempt to provide you with an answer they predict is better for the situation. It’s impossible to look at a the data provided to an instance of the class and understand what queries on the object will return because it may think of a better answer for you, or a better piece of data to look at."TAGS
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Are You In A Claustrophobic Team? SAVE
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"Something that never ceases to humor me is how managers still believe that scaling people on a project will increase the productivity by an equal proportion. We all know the old saying, “You can’t make a baby in a month by getting nine women pregnant”, but the question is why do we still practice this bad habit? Is it because we do not recognize the the law of diminishing returns when it occurs?"TAGS