A Simple Erlang Server in 10 Lines of Code

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}

Erlang Process Monitoring

If you’ve heard much about Erlang you probably encountered a mass of giddy enthusiasts sounding almost sensationalist when they describe how Erlang is immensely fault-tolerant, with a billion 9s of reliability. Ok, they’re actually a different breed to the Ruby folk, but they do…

Is “AssertWasCalled” an Anti-pattern?

One style of unit testing is to verify that methods were called on passed in mocks. In Rhino Mocks the method is “AssertWasCalled”. In this blog post, I’m putting forward my reasoning why these tests are unnecessary, creating more work and indirection — with no…

Is the code better?

As long as there is night, there will be day. As long as
there is twitter, there will be DHH posting “robust” opinions on there. Recently he was
making comments like this:

DDD — Notes from the big blue book. Part 8

Chapter 15 — Distillation

• Identify the core domain and make it small
• Identity of the core domain should evolve through iterations
• Create a short domain vision statement and…

The Contentious Controller

I laughed to myself when I realised how I conceptualise controllers. I went from a fresh-faced beginner who lumped all their logic in there to a clean code aficionado who took SRP out of context and had an abstraction for almost every method.

Method-per-class is a bit smelly

It’s unfortunate sometimes, how a person wants to do well, sets out with the best intentions, but doesn’t really appreciate the context they are operating in and doesn’t really get the results they are looking for. Quite like my own best attempts at reassuring upset…