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Rhino Mocks Examples, with a fix
More Dogs and Bears and Chickens and Things: Invite your colleagues to Pablo's Fiesta
Interface-Oriented Design - Book Review
Happy Hack-o-ween: Electronics and a microcontroller spice up the haunt
Refactoring Dinner: Interfaces instead of Inheritance
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Rhino Mocks Examples, with a fix
Jon Kruger created an excellent explanation of Rhino Mocks, using unit tests to demonstrate and illuminate the syntax and capabilities. (Found via @gar3t .) It needs one small correction, which I'd like to write about here so that I can link to and support...
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Thu, Mar 18 2010 10:35 PM
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Sharon J. Cichelli
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More Dogs and Bears and Chickens and Things: Invite your colleagues to Pablo's Fiesta
If you work with developers who are women, please tell them about the Los Techies Open Space conference , coming up at the end of February. If you've attended an event like this in the past, you're already aware of some facts: The Austin developer community...
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Sun, Feb 07 2010 5:16 PM
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Sharon J. Cichelli
Interface-Oriented Design - Book Review
Ken Pugh's Interface-Oriented Design (Pragmatic Programmers) presents an approach to designing applications that focuses first on the interfaces, the places where pieces of the application interact. The interfaces here are not primarily user interfaces...
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Sun, Jan 17 2010 1:54 PM
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Sharon J. Cichelli
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Happy Hack-o-ween: Electronics and a microcontroller spice up the haunt
Ah, Halloween, when a young woman's fancy turns to love. And zombies. I had two personal requirements for the costume I would build this year: It shall be spooky. It shall blink. I'll tell you about the final result, the electronics and the software that...
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Sun, Nov 08 2009 11:27 AM
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Sharon J. Cichelli
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Refactoring Dinner: Interfaces instead of Inheritance
Last time, in Cooking Up a Good Template Method , I had a template method cooking our dinner. An abstract base class defined the template—the high level steps for preparing a one-skillet dinner—and a derived class provided the implementation...
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Tue, Oct 13 2009 10:03 PM
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Sharon J. Cichelli
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Cooking Up a Good Template Method
The software concept of "raising the level of abstraction" has improved my skill and creativity in cooking, by teaching me to think about recipe components in terms of their properties and functions. Practicing abstraction-raising in cooking feeds back...
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Sat, Aug 29 2009 12:53 PM
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Sharon J. Cichelli
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Inconvenient Accessibility Makes Self-Documenting Code
Intentional use of access modifiers (public, private, etc.) is like a clear memo to your team. This came up during Steve Bohlen 's Virtual Alt.Net talk on domain-driven design . Steve explained the distinction between Entity objects, which have a...
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Sat, Jun 20 2009 8:11 AM
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Sharon J. Cichelli
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