#refactoring

#refactoring

Martin Fowler is one of the most influential people within software architecture, and the broader tech industry. He is the Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks and the author of Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, and several other books. He has spent decades shaping how engineers think about design, architecture, and process, and regularly publishes on his blog, MartinFowler.com. In this episode, we discuss how AI is changing software development: the shift from deterministic to non-deterministic coding;

Pair programming and continuous integration can go hand-in-hand. Pushing to main multiple times a day is hard in isolation, leading to delays, large PRs, and merge issues, Ola Hast and Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom mentioned in their talk about continuous delivery with pair programming at QCon London. Pairing enables instant code review, easier refactoring, fewer bugs, and higher team resilience. In an earlier article, Hast and Mjølne Söderbom mentioned that their team uses pair and mob programming with TDD;

Wing Python IDE version 11.0.5 has been released. It fixes remote development with older Python versions, improves Python code analysis when using Python 3.14 and for type hints on instance attributes, and fixes Find Uses and Refactoring to find all overrides of a method. Downloads Be sure to in Wing's menu after downloading, to make sure that you have the latest hot fixes.

The idea behind this is to share a full, unfiltered look at integrating CSS Cascade Layers into an existing legacy codebase. In practice, it's about refactoring existing CSS to use cascade layers without breaking anything. You can always get a fantastic overview of things in Stephenie Eckles' article, " Getting Started With CSS Cascade Layers ". But let's talk about the experience of integrating cascade layers into real-world code, the good, the bad, and the spaghetti.

One pervasive assumption in a stubborn codebase is that there's only one way to talk to the database, limiting potential changes and upgrades.

When you write tests, you might create a large setup method that initializes various objects. This leads to unnecessary overhead if only one test uses all these objects.

"The main point of the article is to replace simplistic getters with behavior-rich methods that encapsulate the operations pertinent to the internal state."