Month: May 2018
Imperative Programming in Depth
Programming languages come in all shapes and sizes: interpreted vs. compiled, weak vs. strong typing, low-level vs. high-level, terse vs. expressive… There are many buckets you can put a programming...
Separation of Concerns, Explained
Software development is a very young field, particularly when you compare it to, say, medicine or law. Despite this, there’s no shortage of wisdom pearls, which accumulated in the decades...
NDepend and .NET Fx v4.7.2: an extension method collision and how to solve it easily
In Oct 2017 I wrote about the potential collision problem with extension methods. At that time the .NET Framework 4.7.1 was just released with this new extension method that is...
What Makes a Codebase Acquirable?
What makes a codebase acquirable? This is the rare question that affects software developers, managers, and executives in a surprisingly similar way. And that’s saying something since, by and large,...
A Look at .NET Core 2.1
The .NET Framework has certainly been through many changes since it was introduced by Microsoft in 2002. Arguably, .NET Core is the biggest change. First, .NET Core is open source....
Null Is Evil. What’s the Best Alternative? Null.
“Null is evil.” If you’ve been a software developer for any reasonable length of time, I bet you’ve come across that statement several times. I’d say it’s also very likely...