http://www.lenholgate.com/ Len Holgate's thoughts on this and that... Mainly test driven software development in C++ on Windows platforms... - Dumbing down is dumb en-us Len.Holgate@JetByte.com 2006-01-07T09:57:58+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000610.html ImplicitInterfaceImplementation - from Martin Fowler is an interesting piece where Martin suggests that it would be useful to be able to provide alternative implementations of a class's implicit interface. That is, given a class that does not inherit from an... Posted by Len at 09:57 AM | Comments (0) | Categories: Dumbing down is dumb , Testing ]]> 610@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Testing 2006-01-07T09:57:58+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000556.html This may also be your kinda thing. Ellen Ullman's 1998 two part series "The Dumbing-Down of Programming" from Salon archives. Rebelling against Microsoft, "My Computer" and easy-to-use Wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing. Returning to the Source.... Posted by Len at 09:50 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: Dumbing down is dumb , Geek Speak ]]> 556@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-10-25T21:50:12+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000506.html I'm probably jumping the gun a little here as I can't find Herb Sutter's slides that Matt Pietrek is referring to, but... Once again I find myself asking why is it actually useful to repurpose the auto keyword in C++...... Posted by Len at 11:15 AM | Comments (6) | Categories: Dumbing down is dumb , Geek Speak ]]> 506@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-09-17T11:15:50+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000504.html There's a lot of noise coming out of the Microsoft PDC right now. Something that interested me was the future direction of C#; you can grab the spec from here. It seems they're adding "extension methods" which, to me, appear... Posted by Len at 03:12 PM | Comments (7) | Categories: .Net , Dumbing down is dumb , Geek Speak ]]> 504@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-09-16T15:12:36+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000269.html I find that these days I prefer my complexity to be obvious. Things with hidden complexity aren't any less complex, they're just less obvious. If you make all of your complexity obvious then you know which pieces of code are complex and you can focus your attempts at simplification on the right places... Posted by Len at 01:57 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: Dumbing down is dumb , Socket Servers ]]> 269@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Socket Servers 2004-02-29T13:57:12+00:00