While I Compile | … I compile my thoughts about programming

Mar 1, 2012 Posted by John MacIntyre

My take on identifier semantics (Id vs No vs Code vs Key)

When I design my own software, I have a naming convention that I use. It’s not rocket science, but it’s allowed me to know exactly what something is as soon as I see the name. Unfortunately, while...

Feb 24, 2012 Posted by John MacIntyre

Discovering Typemock

Over Christmas I started a little MVC app and because I want it to be a production quality app, and live for a long time, I decided to write unit tests for the whole thing. I don’t know if it will be...

Feb 2, 2011 Posted by John MacIntyre

Consultants are advisors, not decision makers.

Overview I was having lunch with my friend & colleague last week and we had a disagreement about whose decision it is to make a change when you see something wrong in the client’s software. Mechanic...

Nov 24, 2010 Posted by John MacIntyre

Response to Seth Godin’s – Where do ideas come from?

Seth Godin is wrong I just read Seth Godin’s blog post Where do ideas come from? And in my opinion he completely missed it. Sorry, I think Seth is awesome as do many others, but on this one, I don’t...

Oct 4, 2010 Posted by John MacIntyre

My reaction to being named as a Canadian programmer worth following on Twitter

Yesterday John Bristowe published a list of Developers in Canada You Should Follow on Twitter. I was humbled and honoured to make the list. … actually, I was a little more excited than that,...

Oct 3, 2010 Posted by John MacIntyre

The UI programmers (not so) secret weapon

An Example: Suppose you had software which matches buyers and sellers, and new users are created via a ‘new user’ wizard[1]. Let’s say the wizard has 4 pages for Basic User Info, Review,...

Sep 19, 2010 Posted by John MacIntyre

My week (09/18/2010)

Blog Posts Earlier this week I posted What is too simple and small to refactor? about a follow up to my first Clean Code experience where I took a very small function, and refactored it. In the end I...

Sep 14, 2010 Posted by John MacIntyre

What is too simple and small to refactor? (Clean Code Experience No. 2)

Introduction Shortly after reading Robert C Martin‘s Clean Code, I refactored the data access layer from a project I was working on, and was amazed by how much the code improved. It really was...