Gion

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• It Walks Like A Duck, It Quacks Like A Duck, But It's A Donkey - The Problem Of Inappropriately DRY Code

  Posted on Mar 8, 2015 at 6:49 PM

  @RIAstart interesting thoughts and I need to admit, I'm also coming from an OO background. I was a Java developer for quite some time. My day to day job was to create new classes in an endless ocean of already existing classes. Trying to solve problems with transfer objects, DAOs generated by DAO fa... read more »

• It Walks Like A Duck, It Quacks Like A Duck, But It's A Donkey - The Problem Of Inappropriately DRY Code

  Posted on Mar 7, 2015 at 7:57 AM

  Hey Ben. I totally agree with you. Complexity grows anyway and its important to stay simple. If that means a bit less DRY for the sake of simplicity I'm fine.... read more »

• It Walks Like A Duck, It Quacks Like A Duck, But It's A Donkey - The Problem Of Inappropriately DRY Code

  Posted on Mar 7, 2015 at 6:08 AM

  Hi Ben. Nice post and I share your view to some extent. But Id classify it generally as over engineering or anti patterns. Like devs who create 20 folders for components but each folder only contains one file. 10 different locations where you build different levels of configuration astraction etc. T... read more »

•   Is Not A Four-Letter Word

  Posted on Feb 23, 2015 at 2:30 AM

  Hey Ben. I think &nbsp should only be used if youd like to inteoduce space that will not lead to wordwrap. Of course you could use it for layout, the same way you could use tables for layout. Tables are also quite easy to use compared to write your won grid layout right? so why not use tables fo... read more »