Architecture

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Oh, That’s Just “Academic” Talk, Not Reality

Technorati Tags: Rants,Standards,Architecture I’ve gotten pretty worked up lately about comments from those developers who frequently hack stuff together and apply code & run atmospheres in their shops because they just don’t know any better and think this is the way to satisfy the business and their development team. What am I talking about?  Comments like this: “Oh I’ve read articles before from people like that.  A lot of that is just academic and theory, and not reality” “You’re trying to make too perfect of code” “The UI doesn’t need to be pretty” “Just...

posted @ Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:10 PM | Feedback (1)

Worst Development Blog Post Ever – By Joel Spolsky

Technorati Tags: Management,Standards,Architecture,Rants The good thing is, I don’t have to ramble on as to why this is probably the worst post I’ve ever read relating to development.  I think if I did my rambling would be an 800 page book. But here it is, the most naive post I’ve ever read.  I suppose I shouldn’t be acknowledging and giving this guy any kind of attention but it’s so bad, I feel an obligation to share a post from a true Salesman which is what he is, not a developer: The Duct Tape Programmer (la la la...

posted @ Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:53 PM | Feedback (8)

Do I put this method into a New Class? Decisions Decisions…

Technorati Tags: C#,Architecture,Standards These days I’m working a lot more on not just code features, but also more architecture from scratch.  That is, creating many new Abstract classes, Non-Abstract classes, Interfaces and utilizing more and more Design Patterns.  Thus every field, member, property, etc. created in the class or interface heirarchy tree becomes very important in how you define them and where you define them as well as any dependencies that they may be carrying.  You try to create a class or interface structure with as least # dependencies as possible, so that a change to one object will not...

posted @ Sunday, January 04, 2009 10:28 PM | Feedback (2)

N-Layered != N-Tiered: Know the Difference!

Technorati Tags: Design Patterns,Architecture I hear a LOT of developers refer to what are essentially N-Layers as “N-Tiers”.  This kind of bugs me a little when I see or hear it from developers.  First of all, they are not even close the same thing, and it’s important as a developer to get this straight so that you are using the terminology properly.  The difference is simple but very important when you’re talking about your applications.  They should not be loose terms and intermingled as about probably 90% of the developers out there that I’ve worked with seem to do....

posted @ Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:04 AM | Feedback (15)