Thoughts on AI, software engineering, and the changing role of developers

Resources for Continued Learning Beyond Academia

What Your First Year as a Software Engineer Is Really Like

From academic success to professional impact

Getting an Internship is a Lot Like Dating

An Introduction to a Software Engineering Career Path

Organizing various blog entries by common themes

ACM Digital Library Home page

… where I realized that prototype registration is more than just one object for one class

Prototype is not about cloning objects. It’s about surviving change without rewriting factories.

An exploration of how Object Pools improve performance by reusing costly-to-create objects

When you thought you only wanted a Singleton, but you just couldn’t stop at one

The One, The Only - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.

Clarifying Class, Object, Instance, and Their Real-World Meaning

Should Builder’s Director have been its own design pattern?

Progressing toward the Gang of Four’s complete Builder design

From Constructor to Basic Builder

Building complex objects one element at a time step-by-step until complete

Building Smart, Swappable Systems One Layer at a Time

Different mechanisms to create objects without calling new directly

Giving the consumer exactly what they asked for

Building Confidence with the Right Tests at the Right Level

A little bit of order to organize the chaos.

Specifying the obligations and expectations between client and provider

A pattern to help test code that’s difficult to test

Become a Time Lord and control time in your tests

I’m the Design Pattern Evangelist, and I APPROVE this message

Mutation testing tests your tests

… with all due respect to Michael Feathers in stealing his book title and a lot of his ideas for this blog

Resolving an inconsistency between my Design Process and TDD blog entries

A little bit of order to organize the chaos.

How to manage cohesion among abstractions consistently

Let’s revisit these concepts one more time

Cohesion and coupling address when things should and should not be too sticky with one another