Software – Digital Apocrypha

SLotD: Change

Software ~~Lesson~~ Thought of the Day for 25/5/2023

I frequently wish that software was harder to change. If it was then maybe I wouldn’t have to spend so much time changing it.

TakeoutExtractor v1.0

The autumn/winter project that I previously mentioned here and here finally hit v1.0 a couple of days ago. If you have photos on Google and want to liberate them then you may like to check it out.

https://github.com/andyjohnson0/TakeoutExtractor/

SLotD: Serialise/Deserialise is Copy

Software Lesson of the Day for 2/12/2022. Rather than waste all that time writing a perfect universal .net object copy library that copes with every possible variation of nested reference types, value types, fields, properties, statics, and twenty-plus years of special cases and regret and technical debt baked into the framework… just serialise your damn source object to json and de-serialise it back out again. And then be on your way.

SLotD: Premature Abstraction

Software Lesson of the Day for 2022-10-04: Note to self. If you’re struggling to create a generic, reusable, well factored, abstraction to implement a simple, application-specific piece of functionality – then it may just be that instead you can get away with a couple of simple data fields and a static function or two. Remember this for the next time.

(Lets see if I can remember to do this more often…)