Does your View-model Violate Single Responsibility

Intro The majority of us are unknowingly violating the Single Responsibility Principle when constructing our view-models. The XAML below consists of three buttons that when pressed will show a description relative to each button. There is also a clear button to clear all description fields. XAML: Now Take the following view-model: This view-model handles state …

Sex, Drugs, and C#

If you think the title of this article is inappropriate then surely you have never entertained yourself with Hollywood movies or primetime television. The very content of such programs entertains our subconscious desires. Note that it’s been less than a thousand years since religious institutions have gone mainstream in programming our primal behaviors to be …

Switch Statements are Evil

How would you write a program that accepts command line inputs? For example: C:\>vl model C:\>al repository A common approach would be to use a switch statement to handle the commands strings: “vl” and “al”. Once the case for the command string is identified, then the arguments associated to the command would be processed in …

Story Driven Architecture

Intro I find myself a disciple of Robert Martin's teachings. Specifically, I am in love with his recommendations of architectural design. He has given several talks on Clean Architecture. He also has an article of it here "Software doesn’t need architects to design it. It needs architects to review it." What I am not a disciple …

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 …

I Charge the Developer Speech

Businesses relying on software, I’m here to tell you that I charge the developer. I charge the developer with being the biggest liar on this earth. I charge the developer with being the biggest imposter on this earth. I charge the developer with being the biggest neglector on this earth. There is no place in this …

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 …

Reimagining Software Development through HoloLens

The Next Generation IDE

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 …