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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...
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...
Technorati Tags: Unit Testing,Standards del.icio.us Tags: Unit Testing,Standards If you buy into the excuse that “We don’t have enough resources or time to start Unit Testing now”, then you buy into the hack it now, fix it later approach and I don’t respect that. Unit Testing should be something you learn NOW especially when you have a fresh opportunity do so such as a on a new web project that’s being coded from scratch. There are not many projects which you can start fresh on and include Unit Testing like this, and when you have that chance, do...
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Technorati Tags: C#,Standards,Opinion I often see arguments about use of regions in C# code. And this is one of the most annoying things I see on the Internet in my opinion when it pertains to code structure. Whoever says regions are not to be used, I’d love to see your code and know what standards you have established as a team with your code base. I bet you it’s a mess and the reason you don’t like regions is because the developers on your team has abused use of them and that there is no logical pattern or team standard...
Technorati Tags: Standards,Design Patterns I agree 110% on my friend Derik Whittaker’s post about maintaining & refactoring project structure not just code structure and I’m sure many will agree but most do not put in to practice weekly on their teams. Breaking your code into physical projects and solutions is a no brainer so I’m not going to ramble on about that. I'm currently working on a new UI layer for our website in MVC and making a structure that is much more logical even down to the Images folder itself...why the heck not? Example: Images\Site (means it...
Technorati Tags: Standards I liked this post by Jeremy D. Miller about what really makes our jobs tough because of others or departments who don’t care to have any sort of process, standards, or feature priority. If only other developers would take the time to care and really work towards coding good quality code, the entire team becomes 5x more productive. This includes telling the business NO at times or slowing down the business (in the case of code & run shops) so that the quality of code and just sanity of work and ability to think while you code,...
Technorati Tags: Standards,Management For a long time, I have harped that code & run shops are not going deliver any business or employee sustainable results. It’s pretty much common sense to me, but a lot of businesses do not give a damn or get it. It obviously causes all sorts of BIG problems for businesses and the people they employ: 1) Unnecessary pressure. Working till all hours to produce hacks, not code. Affects all parties involved due to the expectation to code & run against ridiculous and lack of well thought out process or deadlines (developer, managers, and their families...
Technorati Tags: Standards These days, programmers, business owners, and managers (left brainers) sadly only look the following aspects: 1) How fast can you code it (code & run will always fail) 2) How cheap can you do it (what you pay for is what you get…be careful how cheap you wish for) 3) Numbers But most businesses and developers fail to acknowledge that this alone will not support and grow your business when it comes to your website…the very thing that sells your customer and entices them to convert. After having worked for several .coms, you come to realize...
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...
Technorati Tags: Standards I think one of the best standards any team could have in their pocket is the Cyclomatic Complexity metric by Thomas McCabe. It sounds fancy but really it’s just a very good guideline that every developer on your team should use and think about when creating a method every time in code. It’s simple, your methods get a risk rating based on the following forumual:number of decision points +1 a decision point is just a line in the method where you had to make a decision with code (see the example in Wikipedia). And part...
Technorati Tags: C#,Standards,Rants There are two major annoyances when it comes to good code and readable code. Here are 2 things that really every team should ensure happens (at least in my opinion ). 1) Any method should not be more than 50 lines but preferably < 25 if possible. I cannot stand huge methods. The point of OOP is to abstract logic out into manageable pieces. Methods are meant to mainly do one unit of work. Not 5 units to make up 1 unit. Put your logic in reusable methods so that they are not only reusable, but...
Technorati Tags: Standards,Rants,Management,Series,Source Control I’m going to post a series of what I call “Red Flags” in development shops. Things that in some development shops happen frequently & also encompass one or more of the following below: 1) Destruct an overall development shop’s efficiency 2) Produce a team environment with unnecessary stress 3) Happen due to lack of standards/process and expectations 4) Happen as the result of bad management, bad attitudes, lack of professionalism, lack of ethics, or just bad business practice altogether These series of posts really start paint the picture of growing problems in many IT shops today,...
