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Smell to Refactoring Cheat Sheet – Industrial Logic
Refactoring cheat sheet. Continue reading
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Sufficient Completeness and Testing
One way to determine “sufficient completeness” suggests considering all sequences of calls that can take an object to a state. This enumeration suggests important test cases. Continue reading
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – Videos
Somebody at MIT was nice enough to make available the videos for lectures on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson and Sussman. It’s a refresher in just how powerful Lisp is. For a language approaching 50 years old, … Continue reading
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Review – Refactoring to Patterns
Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky. Addison-Wesley, 2005.Design patterns and refactoring have been related for a long time. (Consider that Ralph Johnson, one of the co-authors of Design Patterns, was a sponsor of the work that created the original refactoring browser.) … Continue reading
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Fit Reading (Part 8 of 8) – RowFixture
Fit code, part 8, RowFixture. Continue reading
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Fit Reading (Part 7 of 8) – ColumnFixture
Fit part 7, ColumnFixture. Continue reading
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Martin Fowler’s Article on Language Workbenches
Language workbenches. Continue reading
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A Comparison Algorithm for TDD
Can you test-drive an algorithm? Continue reading
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Fit Reading (Part 6 of 8) – TypeAdapter
Fit code, part 6 – TypeAdapter. Continue reading
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Review – A Software Tools Sampler
A Software Tools Sampler, Webb Miller. Prentice Hall, 1987.Unix and its tools are still important, even if the modern GUI mostly ignores their abilities. This book provides algorithms and C code for file updating, comparison, searching, and editing. It’s probably … Continue reading
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Fit Reading (Part 5 of 8) – ActionFixture
Fit code, part 5 – ActionFixture. Continue reading
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Fit Reading (Part 4 of 8) – Fixture
Fit code, part 4 – Fixtures. Continue reading
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Fit Reading (part 3 of 8) – Parse and Fixture
Fit code, part 3. Continue reading
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