I have been invited to join the bloggers at Elegant Code and I happily accepted! It is nice to be in the presence of other Elegant Coders (al do I can not say for sure because I have not seen everyo
A little over one week ago I got my Amazon Kindle DX delivered to me by my friendly uncle from Canada, whom first drove to a friend of his in the US to pick it up. And for this I am very thankful (
A few weeks ago I started writing a book that I call "Are You Better Than Yesterday?". When I started it had a different title, but after reading Chad Fowler’s blog post I realized that this would m
This is a short reply to a blog post by Ward Bell where he is challenging the idea that all methods in the .Net Framework should be virtual by default. Ward states that by making all methods virtual b
In my previous post I mentioned that some of you are displaying signs of having issues with YAGNI. The YAGNI is some sort of mental illusion that is very common in developers, this illusion mostly aff
Many of you (yes you) have the weird notion that the functionality you create is actually the product you deliver to your stakeholder, and that is where you are wrong! Sure the needed functionality an
Ok I did not like how the videos of NDC where listed and created a new list now grouped by speaker and the link points to a almost direct link of the video, now it will open full screen in the browser
Wood versus Plastic
by Mark Nijhof, in
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Design Principles | Monday, June 22, 2009 | 2 comments
I got this analogy after having Scott Hanselman in town, he has a specific ritual whenever he is on a trip. He wants to find a Thomas the Tank Engine to take home for his son Zenzo, but that is not
A few days ago Børge Hansen asked on Twitter “What does it take to be a successful consultant these days” which resulted in a small but interesting discussion (Anders Norås even brought Twitter down b
This has been two very intense days full with Lean. First Mary
Poppendieck held a Talk for NNUG about Waste and Thrashing then the day
after I was lucky enough to join a whole day with her and Tom
I was reading Uncle Bob’s blog post “Master Craftsman Team” with great pleasure, and I would highly recommend everyone to read it, actually just read all of his stuff. Anyway I wanted to respond to hi
From liquids to solids in baby steps
by Mark Nijhof, in
Improvement
SOLID
Craftsmanship
Design Principles | Saturday, March 07, 2009 | 4 comments
This post is about refactoring your legacy code towards better designed code, but first let’s define what I think legacy code is. For me legacy code is code that is not properly testable. I intentio
What I mean when I say, “This is Bad code”
by Mark Nijhof, in
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SOLID
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Design Principles | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 | 3 comments
Well of course I mean that the code _is_ bad. But this has _nothing_ to do with the person who wrote the code. This small but so important detail is not understood by the majority of software develope
Recent blog posts
- Follow me @ Elegant Code
- CQRS à la Greg Young
- CQRS à la Greg Young example code
- My Kindle DX
- My book: Are You Better Than Yesterday?
- Running with Scissors
- Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns
- Hey Developer, YAGNI I tell you
- Hey Developer, the product you create is your code
- NDC videos are published
