In which, after almost 17 years, Mrs Nelson finally has cause to call upon my programming skills.
Programming
A collection of 30 posts
DDDNorth 2014 Review
I had no excuse for not attending DDDNorth this year, as it was held at Leeds University, a relatively short drive from home. Not that I'd be looking for an excuse - these free events are always superbly organised and
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.
A Personal Stack Overflow Milestone
In which my Stack Overflow reputation score hits a nice round number.
Schoolboy Error Of The Day
This dumb mistake just cost me an hour spelunking around in the debugger: var status = source.Substring(source.LastIndexOf("/" + 1)); (where source is e.g. "http://foo.com/status/all-is-good") Fortunately the ramifications were picked up in the acceptance tests,
Enterprise Integration Anti-Patterns #2 - Shared Assemblies
Thoughts on the common antipattern of sharing assemblies between applications.
MVC - Where To Put Business Logic?
I just had an email from a friend asking where business logic should go when using MVC - the controller or the model. I thought I'd share my reply: I think asking whether the business logic should go in the
On the Inherent Negativity of Computer Programmers
A couple of weeks ago, early one morning, my friend and fellow coder Scott asked a curious question: “Do you think that programming computers for a living gives you a negative outlook on life?”Now, Scott is unfortunately responsible for