Communication is everything in software development. Unless you work on a team of one, it’s important that your code communicates easily to your team members. Even if you do work on a team of one, it’s important to communicate to your future self. Yeah, everyone has to read their own code once in a while, […]

If there’s one thing you can’t argue about Test Driven Development, it’s that it creates more code than software written without it. Not just unit test code, either. To make code testable, developers often introduce extra layers of abstraction to make their code accessible, in isolation, from within their unit test code. This can be […]

Sometimes I can’t help myself. This week, I read a blog post asking what was wrong with a dialog. I found plenty of stuff wrong, so I decided to write a response and create a replacement dialog. This is not intended as an attack on the dialog author. I hope it’s not received that way. […]

I have various files that download to my computer automatically. They arrive at different times of the day or night. When they do, I like to transfer them to a network drive on another computer automatically. But there’s a wrinkle. When the files auto-download to my computer, they go into one folder automatically, but when […]