Wood versus Plastic

by Mark Nijhof, in Improvement SOLID Craftsmanship 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

FubuMVC

by Mark Nijhof, in SOLID FubuMVC | Sunday, May 31, 2009 | 0 comments

I held a presentation about FubuMVC for NNUG and decided to write down an abstract of it just like I did for my SOLID presentation "Software Development is not a Jenga game" for those who don’t want t

How to Re-factor or Change Behavior using TDD

by Mark Nijhof, in TDD SOLID Craftsmanship | Thursday, May 14, 2009 | 0 comments

We often hear about how TDD (Test Driven Development) is making it easier to change code and ensure that it is still behaving as it should be and that it is not affecting behavior in other parts of

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 Improvement SOLID Craftsmanship 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

Software Development is not a Jenga game

by Mark Nijhof, in SOLID Design Principles IoC | Thursday, February 26, 2009 | 7 comments

Today I had my SOLID talk for our local NNUG group, this is an extract from the talk “Software Development is not a Jenga game” there were about 30 people attending so I was happy with such big a turn