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Software Architecture

An hands-on-manifesto of sorts, with a take on what quality code means by the people who work in a company that is known for quality code

A tale of spreadsheets, complexity and human nature

I stumbled upon an excellent article by Martin Fowler in which he describes the difference between stubs and mocks, and afterwards the difference between classic and mockist TDD. Be warned, the article is a few years old, but still a highly recommendable...

The command pattern is a behavioural pattern that encapsulates a request made to a certain object inside a Command object. Each type of command knows how to Execute() itself, as well as its target instances. In the example above, taken from the Gang...

Controls Contract

Since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 introduced the WebClient class, I decided to refactor an application we had by replacing all references to HttpWebRequest with the new client. Its methods seemed much more simple and clear, and I didn’t even need to write...

The requestor pattern: avoid looping twice

Hacking Generics