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10 Reasons Why You Should Write Tests

As many, I started programming when I was a child 3 decades years ago. With no doubt, the most important practice I’ve adopted during my professional career is to write...
Patrick Smacchia February 9, 2021

The proper usages of Exceptions in C#

The C# exception basics are generally well understood. However exceptions are often used as a way to sweep error handling duty under the carpet. As I did in The proper...
Patrick Smacchia December 16, 2020

The proper usages of the keyword ‘static’ in C#

The keyword static is somewhat awkward in a pure Oriented-Object world. I would like to explain here what are the right usages of static I came up after 25 years of...
Patrick Smacchia December 8, 2020

SOLID Design: The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)

After having covered the Open-Close Principle (OCP), the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP), the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) and the Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) let’s talk about the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)...
Patrick Smacchia August 27, 2019

SOLID Design: The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)

After having covered The Open-Close Principle (OCP), The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) and the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) let’s talk about the Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) which is the I...
Patrick Smacchia August 20, 2019

Are SOLID principles Cargo Cult?

My last post about SOLID Design: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) generated some discussion on reddit. The discussion originated from a remark considering SOLID principles as a Cargo Cult. Taking...
Patrick Smacchia August 13, 2019

SOLID Design: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)

After having covered The Open-Close Principle (OCP) and The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) let’s talk about the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) which is the S in the SOLID acronym. The...
Patrick Smacchia August 7, 2019

SOLID Design: The Open-Close Principle (OCP)

The Open-Close principle (OCP) is the O in the well known SOLID acronym. Bertrand Meyer is generally credited for having originated the term open/closed principle, which appeared in his 1988...
Patrick Smacchia July 30, 2019

SOLID design: The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)

The Liskov substitution principle is the L in the well known SOLID acronym. The original principle definition is: Methods that use references to base classes must be able to use...
Patrick Smacchia July 23, 2019