Books
Refactoring:
Interesting strategies to deal with 'big' refactorings
Interesting concept in the NullObject (Blog post pending)
I am left pondering how I would actually refactor the db in something as tightly coupled as Rails
Domain driven design
The concept of ubiquitous language is interesting. Although it sounds extremely challenging.
I wonder how one could retrofit the ubiquitous language in an already running application
Different coding and company languages do not help, but can be relatively easily overcome
Practice
Ruby
Participated (i.e. was taught) in the implementation of an actual Factory and Builder Pattern GoF style!
Class methods are also affected by inheritance (e.g.
super
)
Python
Data types do not contain all methods that 'affect them' unlike Ruby. (E.g.
filter(function, ither)
).Python prevents you from having circular dependencies, go Python!
List comprehension. It sounds like a very sharp knife, I'll end up cutting myself.
Testing
Starting to get a grasp of how BDD is supposed to work, after my fair share of failures trying it. (In a one man hobby project, still curious to see it in 'the wild')
Getting better at testing the behavior and not the implementation
Misc
Notes to self
If you want to find a defect, follow the error message
If something starts to feel unnatural or like you are fighting your program, probably you are doing something wrong
@ keywords in Python are scary!
List of topics of interest*
*Where I want to learn more of
UML
Databases
Functional Programming
Bash/shell
DDD
CI/CD
Agile in practice
Game development
Things to (re)try next week:
Pomodoro
Eat the Frog
A bit of UML where possible
Wins:
- Managed to get my game project to where I can highlight the individual cells on hover.
Losses:
- Did not fix all the defects that needed fixing
Surprise:
- chatGPT is quite useful albeit dangerous in the green side of red-green-refactor