Delegates as Type Aliases

Delegates as Type Aliases

In this post I will walk through how to refactor a Factory, moving from a sequence of ifs to a dictionary implementation, and using delegates as a type alias for my object creation methods. Here is a naive implementation of the Factory. You can see...

An Interface Between The Natural And The Artificial

An Interface Between The Natural And The Artificial

Everything built by humans is meant to work within a proper environment. Herbert A. Simon, in his book The Sciences of the Artificial, defines things that are created or manipulated by humans as artificial systems. These systems are composed of an inner environment and they...

Mastering TDD

Mastering TDD

Two weeks ago I went to Paul Stringer's course "Mastering TDD/BDD in iOS". After the two days, I was exhausted... During the course, we looked at all the theory, completed some exercises. Paul gave us lots of links and books to read and, quite frankly,...

Code Smells – Part II

Code Smells – Part II

In the last post, Code Smells - Part I, I talked about the bloaters: they are code smells that can be identified as Long Methods, Large Classes, Primitive Obsessions, Long Parameter List and Data Clumps. In this one, I would like to dig into the...

Code Smells – Part I

Code Smells – Part I

Last weekend I was at SoCraTes Canaries and I gave my first talk ever about code smells. Oh boy! How nervous was I! But now that has passed, I was wondering what I should do with all information I gathered. And then I thought, maybe...

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