Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
- Developers abhor a clean whiteboard
- All code base's want to have an ICommand abstraction of some sort
- Sooner or later, a project called TestHarness will appear in your source tree
- There will be at least one "The Great Refactoring" episode on the project that you will hence use to date episodes from the project. BDUF all you want, YAGNI all you want, it's still gonna happen. If it doesn't, then your code probably sucks.
- At least one grand sounding design idea will generate excitement only to lead to abject failure and disappointment
- At some point you will look at a grand design and suddenly realize a much simpler way to achieve the same goal -- but it's too late
- You'll do at least one refactoring that makes you walk away and say "I wish we'd done that sooner"
- You'll do at least one refactoring that makes you walk away and say "Man, I'm glad we did that"
- You will look back at 6 month old code and groan in utter frustration at your lack of ability
- Design strategies that worked well on one project can easily flop on the next project
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
