"Complex ifs" means anemic models

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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One of the paragraphs on my last post commented how someone could easily simplify an if: just extracting a variable. Today, while waking up, I was thinking how to try to simplify all if conditions. Let’s imagine that I have a simple if which checks the condition of a boolean variable: isReady = … if [...]

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Comprehensible languages x Expressive code x The other side of the world

Posted on 12. Jul, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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One reason to care about expressiveness Most developers agree nowadays that mantaining software is an important task, either refactoring it as a task is completed or one year later when new functionalities are added, the cost of maintainability should be kept as low as possible in most cases. Mentioning most cases, i automatically exclude pieces [...]

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Continuous integration x Versionless software

Posted on 03. Jul, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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10 days ago I got the “ThoughtWorks Anthology” book and was amazed by how some of our ideas matched what was implemented in their projects/clients – in a broader scale, of course. The thing that amazed the most was one of the most difficult steps, that we face since we were little kids with our [...]