The other day, I was reviewing some code, and I saw a series of methods conforming to the following (anti) ‘pattern’ public class CustomerProcessor { public void ProcessCustomer(Customer customer) { try { if (customer.IsActive) ProcessActiveCustomer(customer); } catch (Exception ex) { throw ex; } } private void ProcessActiveCustomer(Customer customer) { try Continue reading
In the last post, I talked about the language employed by Expert Beginners to retain their status at the top of a software development group. That post was a dive into the language mechanics of how Expert Beginners justify decisions that essentially stem from ignorance–and often laziness, to boot. They Continue reading
So far in the “Expert Beginner” series of posts, I’ve chronicled how Expert Beginners emerge and how they wind up infecting an entire software development group. Today I’d like to turn my attention to the rhetoric of this archetype in a software group already suffering from Expert Beginner-induced rot. In Continue reading
The other day, I sat in on a meeting where a large-ish group was discussing “standards” for their particular area of software development. I have the word standards in quotes because, by design, there wasn’t a clear definition as to what sorts of standards they would be; it was an Continue reading
In a recent post, I talked about the importance of having Proto-Geeks in your software group rather than Loafers and the toxic impact of too many Loafers in the group. If you’ll recall, Proto-Geeks are automaters (in other words, developers) that are enthusiastic about new technologies, and Loafers are ones Continue reading
I’ve had trouble with the hosting of this site lately. As you may have noticed if you visit via the site instead of a feed reader, page load times had slowed to a crawl and sometimes the site was actually down. The hosting company, hostmonster, has provided me with good Continue reading
Technology Progressives vs Conservatives Reconsidered When it comes to our relationship with technology, most people think in terms of the classic struggle between inventors that capture the imagination and laborers that don’t want to be imagination-captured right out of a steady paycheck. I think this is a rather obvious way Continue reading
I’ve been working lately on a project where I handle the build and deployment processes, as well as supply code reviews and sort of serve as the steward of the code base and the person most responsible for it. Not too long ago, a junior developer delivered some changes to Continue reading
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions Client: Code that uses the flyweight implementation Concrete Flyweight: A class that actually implements the abstract class/interface flyweight. Extrinsic State: State that is not common to the flyweights and varies per instance. Continue reading