A software engineering blog

If you do a Google search for “best web design books” you will find “Don’t Make Me Think, A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability” by Steve Krug. It’s been on my reading list for a long time. While I’m not a web designer I do build web pages occasionally... [Read More]

Recently I stumbled across an interesting Stack Overflow question: I don’t program in my spare time. Does that make me a bad developer? The answer with the most up votes was from a user called red-dirt who makes a number of excellent points. One interesting point in particular is that... [Read More]

I’ve used NUnit for the last few years but I only recently discovered the TestCaseSource attribute which is very useful in certain circumstances. The scenarioImagine you have a DeviceInformation class. It’s job is to take a user agent, parse it and provide information about the device. The class could look... [Read More]

What is Command Query Separation (CQS)? It’s a principle created by Bertrand Meyer which states that any operation in code should be one of two types; a query or a command, but not both.Query. This isn’t a database term, it simply means that the operation should return some data and... [Read More]

After a few years of putting it off I’ve finally got round to reading Clean Code by Uncle Bob. I’m glad I did. It’s one of a handful of books that regularly appears on lists of must read programming books. Why do I like this book? The main reason is... [Read More]