soporific software development
When your tests go green, it’s often a good idea to think about tidying up the internals of the method you just added/changed.
One of my favourite things to do here is to extract out meaningful methods from the implementation e.g
if(toolkit.Contains(Tools.Hammer))
{
var hammer = toolkit[x.Tool.Hammer];
Day.Morning.Do(hammer.Execute);
Day.Evening.Do(hammer.Execute);
[...]
Update
I haven’t really had the chance to support this too much due to various reasons (new job, laptop with vmware image dying, supreme laziness and attention span issues). Anyway, the project is now on github and (thanks to some work from Lee Henson) is the most up to date: http://github.com/jennifersmith/openrasta-sparkcodec
Hope that helps you all [...]
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