When a team decides it needs a coding convention, the usual move is to borrow one from a big company, such as Microsoft’s C# conventions, the Airbnb JavaScript guide or one of Google’s style guides. That’s a sensible starting point. But each of those documents was written for one company’s team size, codebase and tools. …
Design Pattern
Programming Principles: DRY, KISS, SOLID, YAGNI and More
I’ve written before about the principle I use most when designing software, doing the simplest thing that could possibly work. This post collects the other programming principles and laws I keep returning to, from DRY and SOLID to Conway’s law and Brooks’s law. None of them can be applied mechanically, and several pull against each …
Stop Using Repository Pattern With an ORM
There a tendency in software developers to want to follow a specific formula. Whether it is adhering to a methodology like agile or using a specific design pattern. This happens so often that we have a specific term for it in our field called Cargo cult programming. In these situation a programmer don’t ask themselves …