This is the final episode of Reading Notes. THANK YOU for joining me on this journey. This Thursday at 7 pm eastern we wrap up Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann and look at what we've taken away from this book. You can sign up for fre

Tour

Apr 18th, 2022 4m 21s

This week we look at chapter 16 the last chapter in Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. Join us for the discussion of this chapter Thursday at 7 pm eastern. You can sign up for free at BookClub.dev

The Usual Suspects

Apr 11th, 2022 3m 5s

This week we look at chapter 15 The Usual Suspects in Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. Resources Guide Refactorings With Behavioral Code Analysis (YouTube) The Pragmatic Programmer (Amazon) Code Complete (Amazon) Clean Code (Amazon

Rhythm

Apr 4th, 2022 3m 17s

This week we look at chapter 14 Rhythm in Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. Because we are building software for the long term we get the advantage of seeing different rhythms and patterns develop in how we work as individuals, as te

Separation of Concerns

Mar 28th, 2022 3m 47s

This week we look at chapter 13, Separation of Concerns in Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering, by Mark Seemann. This chapter is mainly about the composition and decomposition of code. Mark recommends that we aim to

Troubleshooting

Mar 21st, 2022 2m 54s

This week we look at chapter 12 Troubleshooting of Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. Mark shares a bunch of different techniques for troubleshooting. The most intriguing one is using StackOverflow as a rubber duckie. Resources The P

Editing Unit Tests

Mar 14th, 2022 3m 46s

This week we are looking at chapter 11 of Editing Unit Tests of Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering by Mark Seemann. This week Mark mentions three books in the chapter Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Amazon)

Augmenting Code

Mar 7th, 2022 4m 2s

This week we look at chapter 10 Augmenting Code in Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. Resources: Strangler Fig Pattern Semantic Versioning Join the free companion discussion this Thursday at 7 pm Eastern. You can sign up at BookClub

Teamwork

Feb 28th, 2022 5m 8s

This week we look at chapter 9 Teamwork in Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. We'll be discussing the ideas in this chapter this Thursday at 7 pm Eastern. You can sign up for free at BookClub.dev

API Design

Feb 21st, 2022 6m 46s

This week we look at API Design or chapter 8 of Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. We talk about two concepts this week poka-yoke or the idea of mistake-proofing Writing for our readers Mark includes a Hierarchy of Communication Gu

Decomposition

Feb 14th, 2022 7m 15s

This week we look at Decomposition or chapter 7 of Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. Resources -2000 Lines of Code Cyclomatic Complexity Accelerate (Amazon) We'll be discussing the ideas of this chapter this Thursday at 7 pm easte

Triangulation

Feb 7th, 2022 3m 21s

This week we look at chapter 6 of Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. This chapter builds on many ideas we've seen in the previous few chapters and shows them in action. The most important of these is Uncle Bob's Transformation Priori

Encapsulation

Jan 31st, 2022 6m 45s

This week we look at chapter 5 Encapsulation of Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. This chapter is packed full of great stuff and you get to see it in action. Resources The Pragmatic Programmer (Amazon) The Transformation Priority P

Vertical Slices

Jan 24th, 2022 5m 31s

This week we continue our journey through Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann. We are reading chapter 4 Verticle Slices which finally gets into the code! This chapter also is heavily inspired by Growing Object-Oriented Systems Guided by

Tackling Complexity

Jan 17th, 2022 3m 47s

This week we look at chapter 3 of Code That Fits in Your Head, Tackling Complexity. You can join the free weekly companion discussion this Thursday at 7 pm Easter by signing up at bookclub.dev. I hope to see you there, and until next time happy

Checklists

Jan 10th, 2022 6m 41s

This week we look at chapter 2 Checklists in Code That Fits in Your Head. This chapter is heavily influenced by The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. (Amazon) Mark also gives us a checklist for how to start a new project: Use Git Automate t

Art or Science

Jan 3rd, 2022 6m 27s

We start our journey through Code That Fits in Your Head with chapter 1, Art or Science. This chapter looks for the best analogy for what it is we do when we create software. Join us this Thursday at 7 pm Eastern to discuss this chapter. You ca

Trailer

Introducing season 4, the final season. Code That Fits in Your Head

Dec 27th, 2021 2m 33s

Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering (Amazon) Join the free companion discussions starting Thursday, January 6th at 7 PM Eastern (bookclub.dev) .NET Rocks! Episode 1759: Code that Fits in Your Head with Mark Seemann

Reflecting on Building Evolutionary Architecture

Nov 29th, 2021 5m 39s

We come to the end of Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change, it's time to look back and decide if the book is was worth the read. One of the authors drops a hint that there might be a second edition to clarify some part

Putting Evolutionary Architecture into Practice

Nov 22nd, 2021 4m 13s

This week, we look at the last chapter in Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change, chapter 8 Putting Evolutionary Architecture into Practice. This chapter is largely about creating the right incentives for teams to build ev

Evolutionary Architecture Pitfalls and Antipatterns

Nov 15th, 2021 5m 44s

This week we look at the penultimate chapter of Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change, chapter 7, Evolutionary Architecture Pitfalls and Antipatterns. This chapter looks at 5 antipatterns and 5 pitfalls spread across thr

Building Evolvable Architectures

Nov 8th, 2021 8m 40s

This week we continue our look at Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change and we discuss chapter 6, Building Evolvable Architectures. In this chapter, the authors lay out the basic mechanics and some guidelines for building

Evolutionary Data

Nov 1st, 2021 4m 59s

This week we look at chapter 5 Evolutionary Data in Building Evolutionary Architectures. This chapter has a guest contributor Pramod Sadalage, one of the coauthors of Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (Amazon). This is a great

Architectural Coupling

Oct 25th, 2021 4m 51s

This week we are reading chapter 4, Architectural Coupling in Building Evolutionary Architecture: Support Constant Change. This chapter introduces the concept of Architectural Quanta which the authors define as, "an independently deployable com

Engineering Incremental Change

Oct 18th, 2021 8m 23s

This week we look at chapter 3 of Building Evolutionary Architectures, Engineering Incremental Change. Resources Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Amazon) Release It!: Design and De