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Booleans and Enums

Refactor common Boolean smells using enums (union types).
Joël Quenneville
September 20, 2017
- Web
- Elm
- Good Code
Spend Your Divergence Wisely

Complexity makes apps harder to use and harder to maintain. We can avoid that unnecessary complexity by starting with good defaults and from there making informed decisions about where to diverge from them.
Mason Fischer
March 2, 2017
- Good Code
- Techniques
- Web
Composition vs Inheritance

Choose the right tool for the job when building modular software.
Joël Quenneville
November 3, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Building Reusable Object-Oriented Systems: Composition

Using composition to build modular object-oriented systems.
Joël Quenneville
November 2, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Building Reusable Object-Oriented Systems: Modules

Solving the combinatorial explosion problem with multiple inheritance.
Joël Quenneville
November 1, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Building Reusable Object-Oriented Systems: Inheritance

Using inheritance to share common logic.
Joël Quenneville
October 31, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Your Program is a Special and Unique Snowflake

Simplify and clarify your code by carefully choosing abstractions.
Joe Ferris
May 26, 2016
- Good Code
- Ruby
My issues with Let

let can lead to bloat. Be careful.
Jason Draper
May 20, 2016
- Testing
- Ruby
- Good Code
- Web
Refactor Until You Feel Almost Comfortable

Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction.
Tute Costa
December 15, 2015
- Good Code
Splitting an open source project in two with Git submodules

How and why we split the doorkeeper project into different rubygems.
Tute Costa
June 2, 2015
- Open Source
- Good Code
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