Back To Basics: On The Use And Abuse Of The Humble Boolean
Thoughts on the use of Boolean function parameters and Boolean function return types.
Antipatterns
Star Of The Week
In which honours are bestowed upon me.
Enterprise Integration Anti-Patterns #2 - Shared Assemblies
Thoughts on the common antipattern of sharing assemblies between applications.
Enterprise Integration Anti-Patterns #1 - The Shared Database
So, I was in the office at a client site, walking back to my desk after grabbing a quick coffee, when a developer on a sister product to my current project grabbed me
Empty Catch Blocks
I’ve just found 22 examples of this anti-pattern in a small .NET project:
try
{
// (Stuff here)
}
catch {}
Oh yes, the empty catch block. Joy of joys.
Declaring an empty catch block is