Aug 24, 2010 Posted by John MacIntyre

My Clean Code Experience No. 1 (with before and after code examples)

Public Code Review Robert C. Martin was kind enough to review the code in this post at on his new blog Clean Coder. Be sure to read his review when you finish reading this post. Introduction After expressing an interest in reading Robert C Martin‘s books, one of my Twitter followers was kind enough to give me a copy of Uncle Bob’s book Clean Code as a gift*. This post is about my first... read more

Aug 1, 2010 Posted by John MacIntyre

What’s wrong with the noun/adjective/verb object oriented design strategy

The programming course I took way back in 1993 was basically a 1 year intro to C. And like any good student, as I learned the language, I also started learning about code reuse and experienced a delightful satisfaction every time I realized 2 different functions had similar code which could be moved into a new function. Eventually, I noticed a pattern, in that I would write a bit of functionality until it... read more