Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
Unnecessarily long methods and overgrown classes are a huge pet peeve of mine on software projects. Apparently Bob Koss thinks so too in Size Matters.
One of the points he makes is that more classes and more methods often equate to simpler code. Amen. On a project several years ago I worked with a client developer who was not exactly enthusiastic about working with a team of consultants. His big complaint about our design was that he could do the whole thing in 2-3 TCL files. I still shudder to think what that would have actually looked like.
By the way, the ObjectMentor blogs moved to http://blog.objectmentor.com.
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
