Tag: design

All the articles with the tag "design".

• The Importance of Words

  15 Dec, 2009

  The English language is a very complex beast which can easily strike confusion in the most unsuspecting moment. Take, for example, the word "lollies". Did

• How to Refactor like a Something star

  27 Sep, 2009

  Refactoring a piece of code can be such a thrilling experience when it's finished, but at the same time can also act as the blackhole of time. Recently, I

• Coding Tip #42: turning enums into classes

  29 Jun, 2009

  In Coding Tip no27 I explained how I rarely like to use booleans to represent states, and prefer to use an enum. Now that I have all nice little enums

• I don't believe in ORM object as your domain model

  2 Jun, 2009

  I have been on a few projects now where we have used ORM libraries to help store our data (eg ActiveRecord for Rails, Hibernate (and it's variants),

• Coding Tip #27: turning bools into enums

  25 May, 2009

  On my recent project, I have noticed a resurgence in a pattern that I have seen many times previously: where a field which is represented as a needs to