Ashley Frieze

Software developer, stand-up comedian, musician, writer, jolly big cheer-monkey, skeptical thinker, Doctor Who fan, lover of fine sounds

Core Java
Ashley FriezeOctober 23rd, 2019
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Ineffective Java
Perhaps I can be replaced by a robot for code review. There are some bits of feedback I find myself…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeOctober 20th, 2019
0 40
What are we Testing Again?
This is a general case around Test Data in the Test Smells. Let’s have a look at a test snippet:…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeOctober 18th, 2019
0 156
Chain of Memory Hogs
As we saw in The Structural Bug, the composition of functions can itself be a problem. On top of that,…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeOctober 15th, 2019
0 444
Small Simple Things
Definition of Software Development Success You can’t build a huge perfect thing all in one go. You can’t work in…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeOctober 7th, 2019
1 121
Stop Writing Comments
This should go without saying, but it doesn’t. We should treat a comment as though it’s a danger signal. A…
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Core Java
Ashley FriezeOctober 5th, 2019
0 622
The Structural Bug
A team member was having a bit of trouble with the following code: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeSeptember 13th, 2019
2 14
Talking Around Your Docs
We don’t write comments. The code is self documenting. The people who say that they don’t write comments are 95%…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeSeptember 12th, 2019
0 44
The Three Stages of Knowledge
In software development, knowing how to do things seems to fall into three stages. Ok… let’s pretend it does, it’s…
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DevOps
Ashley FriezeSeptember 9th, 2019
0 71
Field Notes from an Ad-Hoc Jenkins Pipeline
I recently had a challenge. I have written a PR to improve an open source library, but the owners of…
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