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Test Driven Development of C# User Interfaces

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02 December 2005 06:00:00 +00:00

In my last article I discussed the values in the Agile Manifesto and what they mean to mean. There are many practices that can be used to make yourself more agile. Short iterations, the planning game, pair programming, and refactoring are a few of the practices present in eXtreme programming. The practice of most value to me, and the practice that many recommend to use as a starting point, is Test Driven Development - TDD.

Debuggers Should Go Backwards

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02 December 2005 06:00:00 +00:00

The computer science community has shown a woeful lack of interest in debugging, which given the huge economic cost of debugging is somewhat mysterious. However, there may be signs of "green shoots" in the desert landscape of debugging tools.

Cryptographic Mistakes Made in Programming

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02 December 2005 06:00:00 +00:00

A Reflection on Defensive Programming

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02 December 2005 06:00:00 +00:00

Patterns in C - Part 5: REACTOR

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02 October 2005 06:00:00 +01:00

This final part of the series will step outside the domain of standard C and investigate a pattern for event-driven applications. The REACTOR pattern decouples different responsibilities and allows applications to demultiplex and dispatch events from potentially many clients.

Vorsprung Durch Testing

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02 October 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

Patterns in C - Part 4: OBSERVER

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03 August 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

This part of the series will highlight another principle for dependency management and illustrate how both of these principles may be realized in C using the OBSERVER pattern.

Patterns in C - Part 3: Strategy

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02 June 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

This part of the series will investigate a design pattern that adds flexibility to common software entities by letting clients customize and extend them without modifying existing code.

Can C++ Learn from Generics in Ada?

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02 June 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

Metaprogramming is Your Friend

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12 April 2005 18:05:26 +01:00

Patterns in C - Part 2: State

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03 April 2005 13:16:11 +01:00

Stable Intermediate Forms

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12 February 2005 16:35:57 +00:00

Yet Another Hierarchical State Machine

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12 December 2004 15:57:10 +00:00

Evolution of the Observer Pattern

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12 December 2004 15:57:10 +00:00

From Mechanism to Method: The Safe Stacking of Cats

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01 August 2004 22:52:10 +01:00

More is Less

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02 February 2004 21:55:35 +00:00

Heretical Java #1

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02 February 2004 21:55:34 +00:00

I_mean_something_to_somebody

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03 December 2003 13:16:02 +00:00

This article reports on an experimental study, performed during the 2003 ACCU conference, that attempted to measure one particular aspect of developer identifier meaning assignment behavior. The study investigated the extent to which belief in the applicable application domain affects the meaning assigned to identifier names.

An Alternative View of design (and planning)

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02 December 2003 21:55:55 +00:00

SINGLETON - the anti-pattern!

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02 October 2003 22:56:14 +01:00

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