A suite of good unit tests is immensely valuable: it documents your design, and makes it easier to refactor and expand your code while retaining a clear overview of each component’s behaviour. However, a suite of *bad* unit tests is immensely painful: it doesn’t prove anything clearly, and can sever...

Simplicity is about removing everything that can complicate the process of writing and maintaining software.

Most people who don't know me personally assume that I value .NET Remoting above all other means of developing distributed applications. They might also assume that I'll use Remoting as a catch-all solution to any distributed application.