Sohan - on software artisanship

[...] Private methods, when used meaningfully, are a great tool for writing beautiful object oriented code. But as [...]

[...] of the law of demeter. However, we were having discussion about whether or not we should write unit test for something like the following example: As you can see, this method actually does a quite [...]

[...] and should be treated equally for unit testsing purpose. Here's an example that should need unit test: It looks simple, so testing it should be simple, too. I would only skip the default constuctors, [...]

[...] the URLs (or anything that is actually a server configuration) inside your JS. This is a code smell, as its duplicating code. But its also dangerous, because its hard to catch/fix these defects [...]

When using static programming languages such as Java, often time I have seen people writing methods that accept Object as a parameter. These methods t [...]

Private methods, when used meaningfully, are a great tool for writing beautiful object oriented code. But as many other things in life, excess of priv [...]

[...] Javascript code will be domain driven, instead of just a bunch of monolithic methods. Your client-side MVC application can be very responsive, or even a "single page app". This is an [...]

[...] adding one more to the list, "Care Driven Development", with an emphasis to Javascript coding. Javascript coding, do you care enough? CSS is the most hairy spagetti piece of almost [...]

[...] timestamp, this method ensures a unique token for each deployment. That's all we need for the api module to be aware of new deployments and auto refreshes. Here's an example controller/action (again, [...]

[...] monolithic methods. Your client-side MVC application can be very responsive, or even a "single page app". This is an advantage if your app needs some data from the server, but can leverage [...]

[...] . The app itself uses JSON API calls to render the live data. Each screen is somewhat like a single page app, using multiple AJAX calls to render different parts of the screen, showing different data. [...]

[...] template. For example, the search results in ebay.com is a list of divs, each containing different data in the same template. In a server side, this rendering code is somewhat similar to this: If [...]

[...] page app, using multiple AJAX calls to render different parts of the screen, showing different data. The API calls are all funneled through a single Javascript module. The module looks [...]

[...] calls. Our API's respond with a server token, which is guaranteed to: remain same for each server deployment, and change whenever there's a new deployment. However, we still need to make sure the [...]