I just figured out why callback style APIs are harder to test (and harder to deal with in general). It’s because they break one of the essential ingredients of a hexagonal architecture: the midd… more →
silk and spinachKevin Rutherford wrote 4 months ago: I just figured out why callback style APIs are harder to test (and harder to deal with in general). … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 5 months ago: Warning: academic theorizing and hypothesizing follow. Oh, and half-baked pontification. I just fini … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 1 year ago: Dave Verwer at NWRUG has been crazykind enough to invite me to re-run a version of my hexagonal arch … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 3 years ago: In Edge Case Bill de hÓra points out, as does Tony Coates, that a DataClass is not always a bad idea … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 3 years ago: During my ‘hexagonal architecture’ session at XPday Benelux, the discussion gave me som … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 3 years ago: Last month Alistair began using a new name for the Hexagonal Architecture pattern – he now cal … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 4 years ago: I like simple rules of thumb that will help developers create better, more adaptable designs. So he … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 4 years ago: In his article Domain-Centric Programming J.B.Rainsberger tells a very nice story about how a projec … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 5 years ago: So if we can completely remove all duplicate conditionals, what will our code be like? Well the onl … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 3 years ago: Last week I spent an enjoyable day at XPdays Benelux in Rotterdam. I ran a couple of sessions, atte … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 3 years ago: In A thought on mocking filesystems Brian Marick provides yet another reason to think in terms of a … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 3 years ago: My Jidoka and Hexagonal Architecture sessions have been accepted for XPday Benelux 2005 in Rotterdam … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 4 years ago: In Pseudo-OO Design Dadi Ingolfsson talks about that all-too-common phenomenon – a design in w … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 4 years ago: The standard three- or four-layer models of application architecture seem to dictate the direction o … more →
Kevin Rutherford wrote 5 years ago: Ever since I heard of it (around 1998 or so) I’ve been trying to persuade people to think in t … more →