Category Archives: refactoring

Refactoring: Maintainable Web Services

Posted on November 7, 2011 by kingargyle

One of the problems I have with WSDL based web services is the fact that operations are typically generated into one big interface file that must be implemented.   I’ve seen WSDLs with 50 to 70 operations, and this leads … Continue reading →

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>The Simplest Thing

Posted on April 20, 2010 by kingargyle

>There is a great page on Ward Cunningham’s Wiki page entitled “Do the Simplest thing that Could Possibly Work“. Often times we try to over complicate items or don’t take the time to do the simplest thing. I recently had … Continue reading →

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>Coding Style Cramps

Posted on February 5, 2010 by kingargyle

>I recently rewatched “How to Design Good APIs and Why it Matters” (youtube video embedded below). http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/aAb7hSCtvGw&hl=en_US&fs=1&border=1 There are many lessons that can be learned from designing a good api, one of the tips is to make sure that your … Continue reading →

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>Refactoring: Leveraging Polymorphism

Posted on December 28, 2009 by kingargyle

>While working on some enhancements to bring the PsychoPath Processor’s implementation of the ElementTest and AttributeTest methods into compliance with the spec, I ran across the following bit of code: if (ktest instanceof DocumentTest) _type_class = DocType.class;else if (ktest instanceof … Continue reading →

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>Say What?!?!!!

Posted on November 26, 2009 by kingargyle

>I wrote the other day about some Testing Cramps. One of the comments in regards to the post was why didn’t I just write the tests and contribute them back? The thing is I have done so for some projects, … Continue reading →

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>Testing Cramps

Posted on November 24, 2009 by kingargyle

>At times it is very easy to tell when some code is not written using techniques like Test Driven Development. In particular when I see classes that make liberal use of protected or private inner classes. Now there are valid … Continue reading →

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>Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship

Posted on March 11, 2009 by kingargyle

>Over the years, I’ve dealt with some pretty ugly code. I’ve contributed my fair share especially when I was starting out in this field 15 years ago. Over the years though, I’ve learned that just getting it working is not … Continue reading →

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>Quality and Speed

Posted on February 3, 2009 by kingargyle

>There are a couple of good blog entries on Quality and Speed. Ron Jefferies has an entry on why you can have both. Quality in your code, and timeliness to market. Uncle Bob has a follow up post in which … Continue reading →

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>Testing Content Assistance Proposals Refactored

Posted on January 18, 2009 by kingargyle

>In a follow up to the Testing Content Assistance Proposals article, Nitin found a couple of things I needed to tweak for working more efficiently with the Structured Source Editor and the Structured Document models. Use getModelForEdit(file) instead of getNewModelForEdit(file, … Continue reading →

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>Testing Content Assistance Proposals

Posted on January 17, 2009 by kingargyle

>The topic of how testable or untestable eclipse code is came up on #eclipse-dev last night. There are cases where the code is very testable, but in the vast majority of cases it’s difficult to figure out how and where … Continue reading →

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