The Builder Design Pattern can be used in many ways throughout object-oriented programming. However, one of its most useful applications is in simplifying unit tests. In unit tests, you tend to care only about one or two properties of an object, even though its constructor might require many parameters to be passed. Since many of these parameters are irrelevant, your tests can end up being rather…
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The Gilded Rose kata is a great kata for practicing refactoring. At the start of the kata, you are provided with legacy code for the Gilded Rose, a fantasy-style shop full of such items as Aged Brie, Backstage passes, legendary items, and normal items, each of which behaves differently when the method is called on it. Since the person who wrote the code did not write any unit tests, it is your…
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I recently completed Refactoring Fundamentals by Steve Smith. He includes a lot of great examples and demos for everything he talks about, so I definitely encourage you to check out the course itself, but here are my notes: Introducing Refactoring Refactoring = hygiene for your code Like cleaning your room Do it regularly - habit-forming and easy Do it occasionally - time-consuming and unpleasant…
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I recently finished going through the course C# Design Patterns: Strategy by Filip Ekberg on Pluralsight. Strategy Pattern -> extensible, robust, and testable software This pattern allows you to select an algorithm at runtime. Strategy Pattern Characteristics: Context has reference to and invokes strategy IStrategy defines interface for strategy Strategy is the concrete implementation of the…
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Click here to see my original post on setting up Google Analytics. As of today, I've officially been using Google Analytics for my blog for one month. In that time, I've had 219 unique users, as well as a single-day high of 52 users on July 10! Line Graph And yes, for your average website, that isn't much traffic at all, but it's really exciting for me to see that people are actually reading my…
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I recently completed Creating N-Tier Applications in C#, Part 1 by Steve Smith. Here are my notes: Application Evolution N Tier refers to a system composed of some n number of layers Most commonly 3 - UI, Business Logic, Data Access Logic Separated tiers are logically separated. Sometimes also physically separated. Sometimes separate deployment and even separate development "Tier" and "Layer" more…
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To see my original post on adding an RSS feed to your Gatsby Site, click here If you use an RSS Reader... You can add my blog by pasting the following URL into your reader: https://ilyana.dev/rss.xml Limiting your Feed to n Items Essentially, if you want to make any edits to your feed, instead of simply coding into your gatsby-config.js file, you need to instead add a whole section with curly…
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I recently completed Kanban Fundamentals by Steve Smith. Here are my notes: Basic Concepts "Kanban" is Japanese for "signboard" or "billboard" Literally "visual card" In manufacturing, a kanban is an "order card" used to restock goods "just in time" to reduce inventory in order to improve the flow of production First introduced as part of Toyota Production System in mid-20th century In this system…
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GitHub is great for collaboration, but no one wants their code changed without permission. GitHub addresses the concept of controlling changes to your code via pull requests, wherein anyone looking to alter your code must get your approval for the changes they'd like to make. How to Pull Request Someone Else's Repository What if you want to make edits to another person's repository? Step 1 - Go to…
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I recently completed SOLID Principles of Object Oriented Design by Steve Smith. Here are my notes: Single Responsibility Principle Every object should have a single responsibility, and that responsibility should be entirely encapsulated by the class Strive for cohesion - strong focus of responsibilities within a module or class Strive for loose coupling - the degree to which each program module…
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