Agile Design

Introduction So, it’s just a normal day at work, you’re writing some Swift code, and the need arises to model an abstract

Introduction By now, pretty much every major modern OOP language has gained async/await. Java is the odd man out (they have a

Introduction I have many times encountered the statement from developers that “90% of time is spent reading code”, and therefore readability is

Introduction So, you’re writing an application in an object-oriented programming language, and you need to work with data in a relational database.

In the previous parts, first we tried to write a simple app with pure Rx concepts and were consumed by demons, then

Introduction In the last part, we took a knife to Rx’s one-size-fits-all “Observable” abstraction, and carved out four distinct abstractions, each with

In the last part, we explored the bizarre world of extreme observer-dependence that gets created in an ReactiveX (Rx)-driven app, and how

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? The ReactiveX libraries have finally

On almost every project I’ve worked on, everyone has been telling themselves the web services are RESTful services. Most of them don’t

My Language of Choice “What’s your favorite programming language, Dan?” “Oh, definitely C++” … Am I a masochist? Well, if I am,

Introduction Polymorphism through dynamic dispatch (a base class, plus multiple subclasses that each override a base class method) is the standard way

Introduction Programmers are typically taught to think of the type system in languages (particularly object-oriented languages) as being a way to express

“Specification by Example” is a particular implementation strategy of Behavior-Driven Development. The central justification, as far as I can tell, is expressed

Introduction What is “agile” software development? Well, more than anything, it’s definitely not waterfall. At least in the case in this age

When you first get introduced to the idea of test driven development, it may seem strange that tests become such a central