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The Singleton Design Pattern: Impact Quantified

This post has been about a month in the offing.  Back in August, I wrote about what the singleton pattern costs you.  This prompted a good bit of discussion, most...
Erik Dietrich October 26, 2017

You Have No Excuse for Dead Code

In darker times, software management would measure productivity as a function of lines of code.  More code means more done, right?  Facepalm.  When I work with IT management in my...
Erik Dietrich October 19, 2017

Static analysis of .NET Core 2.0 applications

NDepend v2017.3 has just been released with major improvements. One of the most requested features, now available, is the support for analyzing .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0 projects. .NET...
Patrick Smacchia October 12, 2017

Without Seeing Your Application’s Dependency Graph, You’re Flying Blind

Software architecture tends to be a pretty hard game.  Writing scripts and little toy apps is easy enough.  You build something and then you run it, confirming it does what...
Erik Dietrich October 12, 2017

Get Smart — Go Beyond Cyclomatic Complexity in C#

Recently, I wrote a post explaining the basics of cyclomatic complexity.  You can read that for a deep dive, but for our purposes here, let’s be brief about defining it. ...
Erik Dietrich October 5, 2017