Category Archives: Programming

Replacing the for loop with Seq.iter

Posted on 18.12.2014 by abatishchev

Here’s the initial function in C#: public string BuildQuery(IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> args) { var coll = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(String.Empty, _urlEncoder); foreach (var arg in args) { coll.Add(arg.Key, arg.Value); } return coll.ToString(); } First I rewrote it in F# the following pretty naïve way, … Continue reading →

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How to make Beyond Compare the default diff and merge tool in Git

Posted on 19.09.2014 by abatishchev

Here’s a brief summary of the official documentation: Don’t ask me why BC4 has the shortcut called BC3 still. Go figure. And happy merging! 🙂

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TDD kata by implementing LINQ

Posted on 28.12.2012 by abatishchev

I just discovered that what I’m writing right now is a new TDD kata. Very interesting and useful TDD kata. Interesting because usual C# developer uses LINQ extension methods on every day basis and it is interesting to re-implement by … Continue reading →

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The Cult of Legacy

Posted on 25.05.2012 by abatishchev

In our company’s software development division due to many reasons, most of them are unknown to me, we apparently have The Cult of Legacy: You can discuss anything but Legacy You can criticize anything but Legacy You can refactor anything … Continue reading →

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Your constructor smells

Posted on 23.05.2012 by abatishchev

A code like the following looks as a “code smell” definitely: public ProductProvider( IProductDataProvider dataProvider = null, IProductDecorator decorator = null, IProductSearchCriteriaParser parser = null, IProductInventoryDataProvider inventoryProvider = null, IProductSessionDataProvider sessionProvider = null, IContentProvider contentProvider = null, IProductQueueProvider queueProvider = … Continue reading →

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Isolateware

Posted on 15.05.2012 by abatishchev

After discussion with my colleague and considering the policies and practices adapted and used in our company towards globalization and isolation of software to write and support, I want to try to formulate a software development methodology anti-pattern: A software called … Continue reading →

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“Black Hole” software anti-pattern

Posted on 11.05.2012 by abatishchev

During digging into eCommerce5 codebase and discussing ongoing impressions with my colleague,  I just discovered a software design anti-pattern I called “Black Hole”. As a workaround I declare a rule: Any variables passed into constructor then should be available through a … Continue reading →

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