Did you ever need to just have an instance of a class you cannot instantiate because the default constructor is not available? Do you want to create a test instance just to be used in unit tests? Don’t want to break up the design of your code just for testing? This post might help you: […]
As I have promised in my previous post, I would post an example of small refactorings in order to greatly improve the readability and understandability of code. I own a little project called Dune II – The Maker, and I started writing it a little over 10 years ago. In those years I have learned […]
More and more I am being intrigued by the power of a small code refactorings. The positive impact it has on the readability, the maintainability and understandability of your code is great. It keeps code clean(er) and since the changes you make are really small (I’ll demonstrate how small), the chance they will break things is […]
Recently someone is helping me out on my Dune II – The Maker project. He works with GIT, a version control system like SVN. I don’t care about the differences between them at this point, except for one difference: The patch files. So here is the situation: Someone works with GIT, makes some changes and […]
Recently I have had the opportunity to fix a cross-site-scripting problem. The problem: a lot of JSON objects are being sent over the wire and the data is not being html escaped. This means that anyone who would put html data IN would get it out and make any user vulnerable for XSS attacks. In […]