Week 44, year 2020

  • photostream 125 - Melrose, MA (2020) [Martin Fowler]
  • The Death of Goldman Sachs - A misleading title to draw readers into an occasionally true story A couple of weeks ago Cindy was woken in the wee hours by sounds of animals fighting in our garden. As she investigated, she saw two coyotes run off, leaving our cat's body behind. A state of nature is a state of violence, and our feline predator was quickly turned into prey. Yet our garden has high fences all around, making it an unlikely spot for coyotes to explore. So is there more to that night than a simple act of nature? more… [Martin Fowler]
  • Should social media dampen uncertain stories? - In last weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign, the New York Post broke a story alleging corrupt behavior by the family of Joe Biden, a candidate for President. The story wasn't confirmed by other media organizations. Supporters of Donald Trump acted to spread the story on social media, but both Twitter and Netscape took unprecedented efforts to block the story. That action to block the story became a story in itself, and there's been much discussion about whether the social media giants should block a story like this. Reading this discussion I think there's an important nuance that's been missed, one that applies in general to cases like this. more… [Martin Fowler]
  • Mind Your Strings with .NET 5.0 - In the process of upgrading a library to support .NET 5.0, I ran into a rather bizarre test failure. Simply by adding a new target of net5.0 in the library and unit tests, single test started to fail. It was absolutely baffling to me, leading my to think [Jimmy Bogard]
Permalink | From 26 October 2020 to 01 November 2020 | Last updated on: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:30:13 GMT

Week 42, year 2020

  • Thoughts writing a Google App script - Recently a friend of mine asked for a simple program that would correlate some data drawn from a couple of online services. I decided the best way to do this for him would be to use a google spreadsheet as the host, putting the code into the spreadsheet's script area. I'm no expert in Google App Script, but the exercise led to a few observations, which I feel compelled to share. more… [Martin Fowler]
Permalink | From 12 October 2020 to 18 October 2020 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:12:01 GMT

Week 41, year 2020

  • MediatR 9.0 Released - A small release, from the release notes: This release contains a small, but breaking change. In order to provide a simpler interface, the IMediator interface is now split into two interfaces, a sender and publisher. [Jimmy Bogard]
Permalink | From 05 October 2020 to 11 October 2020 | Last updated on: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:37:53 GMT

Week 40, year 2020

  • Vote Against Trump, Again - I try not to write much about electoral politics, but just as I did four years ago, I think it's important to vote against Mr Trump. While we haven't descended as far into authoritarianism as the worst-case fears, we have taken some significant steps. We must repudiate those steps, and defeat further ones, by voting against Mr Trump and his enablers. more… [Martin Fowler]
Permalink | From 28 September 2020 to 04 October 2020 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:12:01 GMT

Week 39, year 2020

  • Domain model purity and the current time - I’m continuing the topic of domain model purity. This time, we’ll look at it with regards to getting the current date and time. By the way, be sure to subscribe to my email list. Not all discussions fit the format of a blog post (including some shorter takes on the topic of domain model purity vs completeness). I send those out as emails instead. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]
  • Don't Compare Averages - In business meetings, it's common to compare groups of numbers by comparing their averages. But doing so often hides important information in the distribution of the numbers in those groups. There are a number of data visualizations that shine a light on this information. These include strip charts, histograms, density plots, box plots, and violin plots. These are easy to produce with freely available software, working on groups as small as a dozen, or as large as thousands. more… [Martin Fowler]
Permalink | From 21 September 2020 to 27 September 2020 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:12:01 GMT