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Archive for February, 2006

Coding as a human activity

Posted by Andres on February 2nd, 2006

“Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.” -Bjarne Stroustrup For a month or so, I’ve been active coding in an open source project. My first task was to get the team going on writing unit tests and refactoring of the old code. As I was working and chatting with people [...]

Finding coupled code

Posted by Andres on February 1st, 2006

Tightly coupled code is hard to test. And hard to test mean hard to extend, hard to modify and hard to read. There are a number of ways you can couple your code. I’ll list some of them, and if you find you are using them, try finding other ways. For the sake of simplicity, [...]