Month: August 2017

Walk your own path

Any practice worth following, or avoiding, has a name. And you usually can’t tell from the name whether it is a follow or avoid practice. Names are merely formalisations of a set of rules intended to maintain the integrity of an opinionated approach. And they borrow and steal from each other as necessary to get […]

Lazy loading

ANTI-PATTERN! Lazy loading = lazy thinking.   This is a design (noun) in the absence of design (verb). Do you know how your entities will be used? Can you be specific about the properties that will be required? Have you got a design? If so then you don’t need lazy loading – you need each […]

Always learning

I am starting this blog, as a place to host my thoughts and opinions. I have many of both. After coding for 35 years I know that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to software development. Yet. Will I live to see it, or even help to create it? If so then I must be always […]