Category Archives: Refactoring

I’m currently writing some pipeline components for SSIS and I’m curious as to whether there is a commonly followed refactoring pattern for extracting constants.  For example, consider the following. var authenticationType = ComponentMetaData.CustomPropertyCollection.New(); authenticationType.Name = C_AUTHENTICATIONTYPE; There’s nothing unique to … Continue reading →

This post is brought to you by the letters M and V and P. I mention that at the beginning to set the pre-requisites. I woke up this morning, broke open our application, and am currently staring at this method … Continue reading →

There have been numerous posts about hiring the "right" people. One of the more ideal characteristics is a passion for the industry and for learning new techniques. But as I look at more and more code written by these zealots … Continue reading →

I’m in the early stages of a new project with the dashing and debonair Brian Donahue. On the plus side, despite his misgivings, the codebase is in pretty phenomenal shape all things considered. SVN repository, automated build and tests, ActiveRecord, … Continue reading →

I’m preparing my presentations for DevTeach and have come to realize that there is a price to pay for creativity. Here are the abstracts for three of my presentations. Guerrilla Refactoring Greetings, comrades. Welcome to the resistance! Our quarry today … Continue reading →

The "How to" is gone from the title to be resurrected at appropriate intervals. In my last post, it was brought up in the comments that it was, and I quote, "naff". Wikipedia helped me with a definition which confused … Continue reading →

Here’s a little sidebar that I bet you didn’t know. Actually, that was probably more accurate at my old site where my readership measured on a more, shall we say, intimate, scale. Anyway, I recently converted a project from NUnit … Continue reading →