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Plugins, why should I care?

In my last post, Watch your Composition Root, while exploring how I keep my bootstrapping code nice and tidy, I point out that the approach workes very well when implementing the plugin pattern. Rob Earlam provided me with some feedback that I explain the how of plugins but neglected the

Design Patterns

Abstract Factories, shaken not stirred.

The abstract factory is one of the Gang of Four creational patterns and as the name implies it is concerned with the abstraction of creating. The factory part of this pattern can be very useful if an object is created in many places throughout your code. It helps you to

Design Patterns

A new year and a new reason

I was lying in bed this morning thinking about what I achieved in 2013. Travelled through Southeast Asia, Japan, and China. Walked the last 200km of the “Camino de Santiago”. Travelled around Ireland. Worked in Belfast. Attended the Uncle Bob's Clean Code: Agile Software Craftsmanship course. Meet Uncle Bob. Enforced

Dependency Injection

Gravyframe

For the last few months I have been working on a boilerplate and example of how I think a website should be built on top of a .NET CMS. The basic idea is to abstract away the underlining CMS treating it as a detail not part of the core solution.

Façade

Façades - Helping you mock the UnMockable

Most of the time working with existing code is hard when you TDD, unless there is an existing contract. If there is an abstract class or interface, lucky you :). Contracts enable us to mock dependencies which is essential when unit testing, as you do not want to test code that

Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection an attempt to explain

I was explaining to a friend the other day what dependency injection was, and even though I use this in almost every class I create I could not come up with a simple analogy. There is a rule that I use sometimes that my father taught me: “Will your mother