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The Mikado Method is a simple straight forward...
0 replies - 1533 views - 12/26/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Refactoring is a disciplined way to clarify, retain or restore the design of a system as you make changes, and to help cleanup and correct the mistakes and...
0 replies - 3398 views - 12/26/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
Sometimes a programmer will come to me and explain that they don’t like the design of something and that “we’re gonna need to do a whole bunch of...
3 replies - 38032 views - 12/16/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
Following up on the previous article where we highlighted the top 20 features of Code Completion, I’d like to talk about the top Refactoring features that...
0 replies - 13924 views - 10/29/12 by Andrey Cheptsov in Articles
This article is about a recurring pattern you can apply while encountering chain of conditionals or switch statements. Although their usage can be limited via...
0 replies - 4927 views - 08/29/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Refactoring is one of the basic tools in Agile development: it consists in changing the form of the code without changing its function. While refactoring, you...
0 replies - 3033 views - 08/01/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Copy and Paste Programming – taking a copy of existing code in your project and repurposing it – violates coding best practices like Don’t Repeat...
4 replies - 11372 views - 06/28/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
Let's see a common scenario: you want to refactor some legacy code (without any test), which may not even be object-oriented, into some discrete chunks that...
0 replies - 5927 views - 04/25/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
The most common legacy code definition is that of a project not covered by automated tests: picture in your mind a big ball of mud, difficult to change or...
1 replies - 8843 views - 03/27/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Suppose you have a God class that is full of ifs and case statements, or boolean flags. Many refactorings try to segregate responsibilities in smaller...
0 replies - 4611 views - 02/15/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
PHP is unfortunately famous for spaghetti code, but instances of tangle logic is a product of the programmer and not of the language.One of the anti-patterns...
0 replies - 4287 views - 02/13/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Even in languages where there are no constructs but classes, there is no constraint that can force a programmer into writing object-oriented code. In many...
0 replies - 5128 views - 02/08/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
We are entering into the final part of this series, on large scale refactorings: this kind of operations is less predictable and less immediate. However, it is...
0 replies - 3115 views - 02/06/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Delegation is a more flexible solution with respect to inheritance, because it allows to change collaborators by introducing new classes. However, it hides the...
0 replies - 3899 views - 02/01/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
When a subclass violates the Liskov Substitution Principle, or uses only part of a superclass, it is a warning sign that composition can simplify the...
0 replies - 4662 views - 01/30/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
