Refactoring

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• Questions for Apple

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 165
  How are you going to reboot the AppStore? It needs an overhaul and refactoring to be a scalable architecture for innovation.
  3 days ago

• The trouble with soft delete

  
  Richard Dingwall — Authority: 403
  Soft delete is a commonly-used pattern amongst database-driven business applications. In my experience, however, it usually ends up causing more harm than good. Here’s a few reasons why it can fail in bigger applications, and some less-painful alternatives to consider. Tomato, Tomato I’ve seen a few different ...
  5 days ago

• Units are Not Classes: Improving Unit Testing By Removing Artificial Boundaries

  
  Absolutely No Machete Juggling — Authority: 104
  Many developers think of unit tests as tests that test a single class. In fact, I myself once thought this way. If I wanted to write unit tests for a two-class system in which a class used another class, I’d write two unit tests. After all, if I created instances of both classes in my test, that wouldn’t ...
  1 week ago

• Community News: Italian phpDay Call for Papers Now Open

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Francesco Fullone let us know that the Call for Papers for this years Italian PHPDay event is now officially open! read more
  1 week ago

• interviewed on InformIT

  
  silk and spinach — Authority: 100
  Bill Wake and I have been interviewed about Refactoring in Ruby by Russ Olsen for InformIT; you can read the interview here . (I note that my answers have been re-spelt the American way :)
  1 week ago

• Using BETWEEN for SQL comparisons

  
  Robby on Rails — Authority: 408
  Recently, Carlos , suggested that I should start sharing some basic SQL tips that help with performance and/or general usage. I recently came across some code that I didn’t like to read and/or write. For example, let’s take the following… SELECT * FROM brochures WHERE published_at = now() Essentially, ...
  1 week ago

• New ActionScript/Flex Refactoring: Pull Members Up

  
  JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog — Authority: 417
  Today we’re continuing our series of posts about new ActionScript/Flex refactorings that you can find in the latest Maia EAP , with presentation of this new aid: pull class members up the classes hierarchy. Let’s have look at this simple example. Say, we’re designing an API for handling and displaying 2D ...
  1 week ago

• New ActionScript/Flex Refactoring: Move Static Members

  
  JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog — Authority: 417
  Next Maia’s EAP will bring you new refactoring that helps to be more productive when coding ActionScript or Flex. Now you can easily move static methods, properties, fields and constants between AS classes and Mxml components: just place caret on a member (or a reference to it) and hit F6 ( Move action). ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adapting The Joel Test To Web Development

  
  BrandonSavage.net — Authority: 462
  Nearly a decade ago, Joel Spolsky came up with a method by which to evaluate software development shops that has come to be known as the Joel Test . This crucial test evaluates a software development company on the basis of twelve criteria points; Spoksly said that “a score of 12 is perfect, 11 is tolerable, but ...
  3 weeks ago

• Code Smells - Refactoring - Unit Tests

  
  Notes from a Tool User — Authority: 113
  Two weeks ago now I gave an introductory tutorial on “ From Code Smells to Unit Tests ” (pdf) at Agile Tour Toronto (thanks to the organizers for a great conference). The slides walk cover  an introduction to Technical Debt, SOLID Principles , The Sea of Complexity, Basic Code Smells, Refactoring and Unit ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unit tests for private methods are a code smell

  
  Richard Dingwall — Authority: 403
  This week I attended a talk where some people were discussing techniques for unit testing private methods — they were going on about problems they had getting something called Private Accessors to work with ReSharper. The tools they mentioned were completely foreign to me, and I wondered why I’d never heard of ...
  3 weeks ago

• devver are using reek

  
  silk and spinach — Authority: 100
  Interesting link: In Improving Code using Metric Fu the folks at devver.net give a little insight into how they have been using Reek and the other Ruby quality tools to improve their codebase.
  3 weeks ago

• Domain model refactoring: replace query with composition

  
  Richard Dingwall — Authority: 403
  Here’s a snippet of ubiquitous language (altered slightly to protect the innocent) from a system I’ve been working on over the past few months: An Officer is a role played by certain Employees . Each Officer is required to be proficient in a number of Competencies , according to [among other things] what ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ultra-light Development and Deployment Example

  
  Managed Chaos — Authority: 413
  Over the last year, I’ve been helping (part-time) Freeset build their ecommerce website. David Hussman introduced me to folks from Freeset. Following is a list of random topics (most of them are Agile/XP practices) about this project: Project Inception : We started off with a couple of meetings with folks ...
  4 weeks ago

• 31 Days Refactoring

  
  Wely — Authority: 100
  If you like to write well-managed and proper code, I strongly advice you take a look at this good stuff . This whitepaper was prepared by Sean Chambers and Simone Chiaretta. But of course, most material refers to the refactoring.com , that managed by Mr Refactoring, Martin Fowler. Thanks to Zeddy to share us this ...
  4 weeks ago

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