Testing Logging
As a developer I recognise the importance of generating logs for the systems that I help design and develop. At the outset often everyone recognizes the importance of logging but somehow it’s very …
Software Development
Templated styles
While developing web applications I have often needed to change the style of one or more elements based on the state of the data model used by the application. I have an inherent aversion to …
Dependency Inversion - Applying the principle
The Value of Value Types
In domain driven design (DDD) we talk a lot about entities; objects that have identity and lifetimes that typically outlive their values. e.g. An account lives longer than the email address, name, …
Build Analytics - better development understanding
Working with small teams is a lot of fun and I find it fairly easy to keep track of what is happening with version control and build systems. Errors and failures don’t come up that often and …
Container-less web apps
In his keynote ‘This is water’ Neal Ford talks about “Yesterday’s best practices become tomorrow’s anti-patterns”. This seems to be the case for application servers …
Service IoC containers
How can we get the benefits of IoC containers at a higher level - the services that we deploy into environments? Typical service tiers are implemented with a fronting load balancer that allocates …
Cling A C++ REPL?!
Browsing some blogs recently I came across some interesting C++11 lambda code and thought it would be cool to try it out for myself. The idea of spinning up a project or even putting a new test in an …
Boost program_options
I have been spending time recently writing command line apps in C++11. Each time I wanted a way of handling command line arguments flexibly. I chose to use the boost::program_options library. The …
Java build tools 2013
I am about to embark on a new Java project so I thought I would take a look at the current state of build tools for Java projects. First I thought I would draw up some assessment criteria to use as a …