Had a code review today and I realized that I am an exception extremist, an exception bigot if you will. I don’t like exceptions. I’d rather throw up than throw an exception. I have a rule, if you can detect the situation [ read more...]
In a prior post I talked about how to unit test android applications. I made some references to wiring up an Activity with a presenter, but I didn’t really show how I was doing that. I got some requests to show some [ read more...]
Sorry to rain on your parade. I know that you just refactored that series of if-else statements into one switch statement and you're feeling like you did your good deed for the day. Take a moment to rest on your laurels before [ read more...]
I recently completed reading The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. I wish I could take a time machine back to the year 2000 and read it then. So much of the information in the book seems to be concepts [ read more...]
I talked about how moving the finish line is one of the most destructive things to do to a Scrum team, but I wanted to talk about another variation of the same problem, which is scope creep on backlog items in progress. [ read more...]
In my last post I presented two choices for unit testing in Android. Unit test on the real device or emulator using the real android framework Unit test on our PC using the JVM Each choice has some pros and cons, but [ read more...]