Just a quick note here. I decided over the weekend to change the URL scheme to remove the query strings from the URLs. I do lose the +1/Like/Tweet/etc counts in the social media plugin, but that’s the only thing that should be affected. The old URLs with query strings and post IDs will redirect to…
The Road to Madness is Paved with Lying APIs Today, I’d like to discuss the subject of little things that add up to making your code a chore to work with for others. I’m not talking about things like code that’s incomplete or non-functional, or other obvious problems, but rather subtle, sort of insidious ones….
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Behavioral Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions N/A The Problem Let’s say that you’re doing something reasonably standard. You have some desktop application that deals with a persistence structure (file, web service, remote database, whatever) and displays things for the user. Since it’s…
I was chatting with someone the other day about some code that he had written, and he expressed that he wished he had done it another way. He said that there was a bunch of duplication and that, while he wasn’t sure what he should have done, he didn’t think it seemed quite right. I…
Wet Behind the Ears As a child in secondary school, you are instructed to do work and have very little choice in the whys and hows of the matter. This tends to be true in college education as well, although as one progresses, some choices are left to the student. Generally, these are vetted heavily…
