Tag: Patterns and Practices
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Run! The Distributed Systems are coming!
You can avoid the fate of those that fell before you This is a letter to my fellow engineers, specifically those who operate in the front-end world. This letter is sent with love, but carries a message of deep foreboding. It is a warning and yet it is a message of hope, that there is…
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Concepts of Compliant Data Encryption
Introduction This is a somewhat lengthy article that is intended to help anyone who is taking their first steps into learning about encrypting sensitive data in a compliant environment such as meeting PCI DSS requirements. The hope is that this is an effective stepping stone into the dry, dry world of encryption standards and compliance.…
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Babeling in defence of JavaScript
And so it goes, the eternal question “What is wrong with JavaScript?” and the inevitable, inescapably droll, reply: Nothing![] == '' // -> true[] == 0 // -> true[''] == '' // -> true[0] == 0 // -> true[0] == '' // -> false[''] == 0 // -> true — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) June 16,…
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A functional solution to interfacitis?
/ˈɪntəfeɪsʌɪtəs/ noun noun: interfacitis inflammation of a software, most commonly from overuse of interfaces and other abstractions but also from… well… actually it’s mostly just interfaces. An illness of tedium Over the years my experience has come to show me that unnecessary abstractions cause some of the most significant overheads and inertia in software projects.…
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FileFormatException: Format error in package
OK so we’re all completely clear on what this error means and what must be done to resolve it right? I mean with a meaningful error like that how can anyone be mistaken? Oh? What’s that? You still don’t know? Let’s be a bit more specific: System.IO.FileFormatException: Format error in package Better? Didn’t think so.…
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Things I wish I knew 10 years ago: Abstractions
We need to talk about abstractions The main reason I decided to start this blog is that I have begun working for a company that has genuinely challenged many of my assumptions about how software should be developed. I have spent much of my career learning from the more prominent voices in software development about…
Stephen Roughley - A Common Developer 