Applying the DRY Principle to your Career

Have you ever considered leaving a job that you knew was preventing you from being your best? I am not taking about doing your best work. I am literally talking about your profession being an extension of your soul. I am talking about the deep love that you have for your profession that can at …

Does your code get better with age?

Introduction Perhaps this is an overloaded question. Some may say that as they write more code throughout their career, that their code does get better over time. But what I am referring to is that 30,000 or more Lines of Code (LOC) that you’ve written for a particular system. Is it better today than it …

Next Generation IDE

Introduction I decided to build a next generation IDE targeting the HoloLens platform. This project is code-named: Holoware Framework Requirements The IDE will serve as a framework for building applications using the following workflow: • Identify architectural layers • Construct modules for each layer • Construct classes for each module The IDE will leverage both …

Reimagining Software Development through HoloLens

The Next Generation IDE

Writing a Bot to Unit-Test Your Code

  Introduction Sometimes we may not always have an environment where we can leverage Visual Studio’s feature for running unit tests after compilation. I observed this situation with a client onsite and decided to implement this function for the system I was building regardless. In my case, I could not leverage this feature as a …

C#: Decoupling a Subscriber from a Publisher of an Event

Introduction Inspired by Microsoft’s Prism framework, I decided to implement their EventAggregator class as a learning exercise. The EventAggregator is a class within Prism that serves as a mediator between publishers and subscribers of an event. Imagine a platform where arbitrary subscribers can place the messages that they’re interested in onto it. Next imagine publishers …

HoloLens and the future of XAML Developers

Introduction HoloLens was recently announced to be a first-party member of the Windows 10 operating system. The few Windows developers who have actually maintained faith throughout the Silverlight and Windows Store debacles may actually find comfort in this. So what is HoloLens? HoloLens is Microsoft’s augmented-reality device. In other words, it’s a wearable visor that …

An alternative to writing complex queries for entities already in memory

Introduction There’s been a couple times where I have struggled to simply pull in data regarding some business entity and its association to other entities without bloating out a class definition for a business object. Specifically, I was building an inventory system and discovered a pattern for looking up information without being loss in complicated …

Unit Testing a User Interaction

  Introduction I have yet to sit-in on a software development user-group presentation on TDD and have the presenter answer my question on the following: How do I unit test a user interaction (i.e. confirmation dialog)? This question was answered for me several years ago when I studied Prism. Prism is a WPF framework for …

Can a unit test also serve as an integration test?

Introduction I provided the following post in which I asked how to write a test once and specify it as a unit test or an integration test. Apparently, people did not like my question based on their teachings of what a unit test is versus an integration test. They have been trained to believe that …