Design Patterns – Using the Decorator Pattern in C#(dotnetcube.com)

submitted by dncdude(1350) 2 years, 9 months ago

Decorator Patterns belong to the Structural Pattern category and it’s role is in providing a way of attaching new behavior to the object at run time. The object is unaware of the new behavior and this pattern is a good candidate for enhancing legacy applications. Decorator Pattern provides a way of adding functionality to an existing class without using inheritance. read more...

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Finally Understanding the Merits of TDD(randomactsofcoding.blogspot.com)

submitted by JamesEggers(1250) 2 years, 9 months ago

I'm not a TDD person...or at least I wasn't until last week. Up until then, I had read the blogs and looked at the examples to try to understand TDD and unit testing (with mocking) in general. Almost all of the examples I was shown demonstrated very basic scenarios that, in most cases, were too trivial to show value. I would ask people who would speak about unit testing in general how you'd do a specific scenario and would get mix responses ranging from "just try it" to "you should be using this tool and it'll just write the tests for you". read more...

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Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practises(blog.codeville.net)

submitted by desmond(2014) 2 years, 9 months ago

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 severely inhibit your ability to refactor or alter your code in any way. How can you be sure to write unit tests that contribute positively to your project and don't end up being a liability? read more...

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Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 3 years, 3 months ago

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it. read more...

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Is Crowd Computing the Future?(quicklearn.com)

submitted by nickh(95) 3 years, 3 months ago

With so many questions about elastic hosted services, and an as of yet unclear track record for the same, I cannot help but wonder if the cloud computing model will really take hold, or if it will just be a bridge to an even more impressive generation of computing architectures to follow. Maybe it will be both. This discussion then begs the question -- of what that generation will look like that does follow. read more...

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When Should I Write Tests?(stevenharman.net)

submitted by ussherm(5285) 3 years, 5 months ago

The definitive answer to a question that comes up all the time... read more...

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Choosing Between WebForms and MVC(blog.gadodia.net)

submitted by whoisvaibhav(1000) 3 years, 5 months ago

Another take on what to consider when making a decision between Asp.Net WebForms or Asp.Net MVC. read more...

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Yet another Singleton Yada-Yada(sharpregion.com)

submitted by AdrianAisemberg(2004) 3 years, 5 months ago

Using a static-constructor in a singleton, affects it's laziness. Here's a generic singleton that is thread-safe using a static-constructor, and still lazy. read more...

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