I miss very few things from the Java language, one gem I really miss is the package-private accessibility modifier. This was so useful, your IDE colour coded your package classes in another colour so you knew they were not part … Continue reading
‘Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension but closed for modification.‘ [R. Martin] The OCP is a set of strategies based on inheritance and polymorphism that aims to make code more extensible with fewer side effects when … Continue reading
Over the coming weeks I plan to do a bit of a study on the SOLID principles. SOLID stands for: Single Responsibility Open-Closed Liskov Substitution Interface Segregation Dependency Inversion The term was coined by Robert Martin [http://cleancoder.posterous.com/]. The five principles … Continue reading
After much effort, trying to get the default DatabaseAppender working in log4net I decided to write my own, so with the help of one of my alpha geeks (Tnx Chinsu) we created this awesome (its awesome because it uses batch … Continue reading
For a project we are currently working on here at PicNet we decided to forgo the bloat of ASP.Net and Mvc and go for a super light weight web platform. We tried Kayak but this was a little too ‘bare’ … Continue reading
It gives me great pleasure to anounce that PicNet’s closure control library is now public. We have started with only 2 of our controls but over the next few weeks we will port all of our control code to this … Continue reading
One of the hardest things about getting started properly with Google Closure Tools is that it has a huge amount of framework boilerplate that needs to be organised in order to write your first line of code. I have found that the … Continue reading
I’ve been doing some work with IndexedDB (on Mouse Eye Tracking) recently and created a closure extern file (download) to help with the process. Hope this helps someone Please let me know if someone would like me to create an open source … Continue reading
I have spoken in the past about my great respect for the closure project. This project brings some semblance of order to the chaotic and dangerous world of large application javascript development. However it also has some problems, the biggest … Continue reading
Working on our website heat maps product, Mouse Eye Tracking, has allowed us to really get into some of the more lean and super agile approaches to developing software. Something that we have loved doing recently is Split Testing (or … Continue reading
