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Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-Terminating Object Programs
Make an understandable mess, fix the bug, then make it easier to understand
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AI & Software Development 2
2 more missing topics
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AI & Software Development
Raw Thoughts
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To Test or Not to Test? That’s a Good Question
First published August 2014. For context JUnit Max was a commercial product I produced that is still the best test runner I’ve ever used. It gave…
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Getting There From Here
Getting ramped up to write book 2 & I keep thinking of book 3 topics. I’ll record them with you so I have them some place & so you know a bit about what…
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March 2024

TDD's Missing Skill: Behavioral Composition
I appreciate Mr. Zakharchenko’s extensive critique of TDD even as I have some reservations regarding his language. He tried TDD. He thought about it. He…
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Surprise Factory--Coupling: Why Software Costs So Damn Much
Thank you all for the feedback on the previous chapter. I think the result is much improved. This week we have the technical meat of the…
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Design is an Island
First published April 2009. This was a period when I was working consistently on the material that would become, a decade and a half later, Tidy First…
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Features & Design: Both Essential & Yet Mutually Exclusive
I got great feedback that the previous version of this chapter relied too heavily on analogies. Here it is written in a more straightforward style. If…
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The Open/Closed/Open Principle
First published June 2009. I still see folks making this mistake—”design good APIs”. Sure, fine, but what about when the APIs turn out not to be good…
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Features & Design: A Dance of Contrasts
Chapter 4 of The Surprise Factory
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