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The reason that the stock market has rebounded since 2008 is not for any authentic reasoning. It is because the government is taking on massive amounts of debt effectively acting to expand the money supply all by themselves. This deficit is obviously not sustainable and as soon as the government has to live within their means or has to pay it back we will see the stock market restore to reality. Stocks will drop after the government deficit is zero because they are propping the economy up by currently spending the next 10-15 year's dollars today. The Gov. is stealing gains from our future economic activity to attempt to keep our money supply and asset prices at an unsustainable level (not to help us…. but to ensure the cover up of the failing of the big banks).
I thought we lived in a capitalistic society where markets clear. But then I remember that Federal, State, and Local government make up about 42% of GDP. In the book "The Road to Serfdom" Hayek said that Germany was close to 54% before they teetered to oblivion in the 1920's. First we get a form of crony capitalism (much like we currently have). Next, the path follows as democratic socialism to socialism to communism to totalitarianism to fascism. Hayek does not say that the path to serfdom is not reversible. We just need to restore capitalism and get government out of the markets!
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That's when I came across the words Toyota, Avensis and Drift. I have never seen them all in the same sentence before, but I'm glad I have now. This is one of the finest, most outrageous videos you'll see all year.
Some people will hate it, some will think it's just too naughty but I just get off on the fact that the human mind is so addicted to absurdity that one of our species went out and did this.
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We like to think our intelligence is self-made; it happens inside our heads, the product of our inner thoughts alone. But the rise of Google, Wikipedia and other online tools has made many people question the impact of these technologies on our brains. Is typing in the search term, "Who has played James Bond in the movies?" the same as knowing that the answer is Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig (… plus David Niven in Casino Royale)? Can we say we know the answer to this question when what we actually know is how to rapidly access the information?
I've written before about whether or not the internet is rewiring our brains, but here the question is about how we seek to define intelligence itself. And the answer appears to be an intriguing one. Because when you look at the evidence from psychological studies, it suggests that much of our intelligence comes from how we coordinate ourselves with other people and our environment.
An influential theory among psychologists is that we're cognitive misers. This is the idea that we are reluctant to do mental work unless we have to, we try to avoid thinking things though fully when a short cut is available. If you've ever voted for the political candidate with the most honest smile, or chosen a restaurant based on how many people are already sitting in there, then you've been a cognitive miser. The theory explains why we'd much rather type a zipcode into a sat-nav device or Google Maps than memorise and recall the location of a venue – it's so much easier to do so.
Research shows that people don't tend to rely on their memories for things they can easily access. Things like the world in front of our eyes, for example, can be changed quite radically without people noticing. Experiments have shown that buildings can somehow disappear from pictures we're looking at, or the people we're talking to can be switched with someone else, and often we won't notice – a phenomenon called "change blindness". This isn't as an example of human stupidity – far from it, in fact – this is an example of mental efficiency. The mind relies on the world as a better record than memory, and usually that's a good assumption.
As a result, philosophers have suggested that the mind is designed to spread itself out over the environment. So much so that, they suggest, the thinking is really happening in the environment as much as it is happening in our brains. The philosopher Andy Clark called humans "natural born cyborgs", beings with minds that naturally incorporate new tools, ideas and abilities. From Clark's perspective, the route to a solution is not the issue – having the right tools really does mean you know the answers, just as much as already knowing the answer.
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A memory study by Daniel Wegner of Harvard University provides a neat example of this effect. Couples were asked to come into the lab to take a memorisation test. Half the couples were kept together, and half were reassigned to pair up with someone they didn't know. Both groups then studied a list of words in silence, and were then tested individually. The pairs that were made up of a couple in a relationship could remember more items, both overall and as individuals.
What happened, according to Wegner, was that the couples in a relationship had a good understanding of their partners. Because of this they would tacitly divide up the work between them, so that, say, one partner would remember words to do with technology, assuming the other would remember the words to do with sports. In this way, each partner could concentrate on their strengths, and so individually they outperformed people in couples where no mental division of labour was possible. Just as you rely on a search engine for answers, so you can rely on people you deal with regularly to think about certain things, developing a shared system for committing items to memory and bringing them out again, what Wegner called "transactive memory".


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Getting Started with Code::Blocks
In this article by Biplab Kumar Modak, the author of C++ Application Development with Code::Blocks, we'll download Code::Blocks, install and learn more about it.
Read Getting Started with Code::Blocks in fullHow to use PowerShell Web Access to manage Windows Server
In this article by Vinith Menon, the author of Instant Windows PowerShell, we will learn how to to use PowerShell Web Access to manage your Windows Server Environment anywhere, anytime, and on any device. PowerShell Web Access, a web-based Windows PowerShell console, and Windows PowerShell commands and scripts can be run from a Windows PowerShell console in a web browser; with no Windows PowerShell, remote management software, or browser plug-in installation becomes necessary on the client device.
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This article by Sai Srinivas Sriparasa, author of JavaScript and JSON Essentials, shows the importance of JSON or JavaScript Object Notation and also explains why it is a very popular data interchange format.
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This article, by Rafał Kuć and Marek Rogoziński the authors of book Mastering ElasticSearch we will have covered the following topics:
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- Looking deeper into multilingual data handling
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Getting into the Store
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This article written by Luca Zamboni, the author of Getting Started with Simulink describes how solvers are used by Simulink to run the simulation. It explains how every solver perform the simulation by advancing one time step and computing the new outputs starting from the previous state(s) of the system until the end of the simulation time. The initial system state must be fully defined.
The appropriate solver for a model can be chosen by defining these characteristics:
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- Presence of continuous states in the system
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Advanced System Management
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This article by Mahmoud Elkoush, author of Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports, describes how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. We will create our application, and by studying the working of this application, we will learn the features of Visual Studio. We will also design our interface and validate our data. By the end of this article, we will have the final design of our application.
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Scratching the Surface of Zend Framework 2
In this article by Christopher Valles, the author of Zend Framework 2 Application Development, discusses the basic elements of Zend Framework 2. You will get an in-depth look at the components involved on a simple request/response operation and this knowledge will be used and expanded on throughout the article. After that we will review how the welcome page is loaded.
By the end of this article, you will know the lifecycle of a request and how to interact with the different components of the framework to produce some output.
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This article by Nishant Neeraj, author of Mastering Apache Cassandra, will describe Cassandra to be distributed, decentralized, fault tolerant, eventually consistent, linearly scalable, and a column-oriented data store. This means Cassandra is made to easily deploy over a cluster of machines located at geographically different places. There is no central master server, so no single point of failure, no bottleneck, data is replicated, and a faulty node can be replaced without any downtime. It's eventually consistent. It is linearly scalable, which means with a greater number of nodes, the requests served per second per node would not go down. Also, the total throughput of the system will increase with each node being added. And finally, it's column oriented, much like a map (or better, a map of sorted maps) or a table with flexible columns where each column is essentially a key-value pair. So, you can add columns as you go, and each row can have a different set of columns (key-value pairs). It does not provide any relational integrity. It is up to the application developer to perform relation management.
Read About Cassandra in fullAuthenticating Your Application with Devise
A "state of the art" application sometimes requires more customizations from Devise, such as customization for signing in, updating accounts, or resetting a user's password. When you first install Devise with its default settings, you will not get these features. That's why you will need to dig deeper to have a more comprehensive understanding about Devise, and this article by Hafiz, Nia Mutiara, and Giovanni Sakti, authors of Learning Devise for Rails, will help you do just that.
Read Authenticating Your Application with Devise in fullManaging Test Structure with Robot Framework
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Read Managing Test Structure with Robot Framework in fullTroubleshooting
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - William and Mary head football coach Jimmye Laycock and the Colonial All-Pro Football Camp have once again attracted some of the most prominent names from the National Football League to serve as guest instructors at this year's camp, which will be held June 23-26 on the W&M campus.
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Besides an introduction to refactoring, this handbook provides a catalog of dozens of tips for improving code. The best thing about Refactoring is its remarkably clear presentation, along with excellent nuts-and-bolts advice, from object expert Martin Fowler. The author is also an authority on software patterns and UML, and this experience helps make this a better book, one that should be immediately accessible to any intermediate or advanced object-oriented developer. (Just like patterns, each refactoring tip is presented with a simple name, a "motivation," and examples using Java and UML.)
Early chapters stress the importance of testing in successful refactoring. (When you improve code, you have to test to verify that it still works.) After the discussion on how to detect the "smell" of bad code, readers get to the heart of the book, its catalog of over 70 "refactorings"--tips for better and simpler class design. Each tip is illustrated with "before" and "after" code, along with an explanation. Later chapters provide a quick look at refactoring research.
Like software patterns, refactoring may be an idea whose time has come. This groundbreaking title will surely help bring refactoring to the programming mainstream. With its clear advice on a hot new topic, Refactoring is sure to be essential reading for anyone who writes or maintains object-oriented software. --Richard Dragan
Topics Covered: Refactoring, improving software code, redesign, design tips, patterns, unit testing, refactoring research, and tools.
Once upon a time, a consultant made a visit to a development project. The consultant looked at some of the code that had been written; there was a class hierarchy at the center of the system. As he wandered through the hierarchy, the consultant saw that it was rather messy. The higher-level classes made certain assumptions about how the classes would work, assumptions that were embodied in inherited code. That code didn't suit all the subclasses, however, and was overridden quite heavily. If the superclass had been modified a little, then much less overriding would have been necessary. In other places some of the intention of the superclass had not been properly understood, and behavior present in the superclass was duplicated. In yet other places several subclasses did the same thing with code that could clearly be moved up the hierarchy.
The consultant recommended to the project management that the code be looked at and cleaned up, but the project management didn't seem enthusiastic. The code seemed to work and there were considerable schedule pressures. The managers said they would get around to it at some later point.
The consultant had also shown the programmers who had worked on the hierarchy what was going on. The programmers were keen and saw the problem. They knew that it wasn't really their fault; sometimes a new pair of eyes are needed to spot the problem. So the programmers spent a day or two cleaning up the hierarchy. When they were finished, the programmers had removed half the code in the hierarchy without reducing its functionality. They were pleased with the result and found that it became quicker and easier both to add new classes to the hierarchy and to use the classes in the rest of the system.
The project management was not pleased. Schedules were tight and there was a lot of work to do. These two programmers had spent two days doing work that had done nothing to add the many features the system had to deliver in a few months time. The old code had worked just fine. So the design was a bit more "pure" a bit more "clean." The project had to ship code that worked, not code that would please an academic. The consultant suggested that this cleaning up be done on other central parts of the system. Such an activity might halt the project for a week or two. All this activity was devoted to making the code look better, not to making it do anything that it didn't already do.
How do you feel about this story? Do you think the consultant was right to suggest further clean up? Or do you follow that old engineering adage, "if it works, don't fix it"?
I must admit to some bias here. I was that consultant. Six months later the project failed, in large part because the code was too complex to debug or to tune to acceptable performance.
The consultant Kent Beck was brought in to restart the project, an exercise that involved rewriting almost the whole system from scratch. He did several things differently, but one of the most important was to insist on continuous cleaning up of the code using refactoring. The success of this project, and role refactoring played in this success, is what inspired me to write this book, so that I could pass on the knowledge that Kent and others have learned in using refactoring to improve the quality of software. What Is Refactoring?
Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure. It is a disciplined way to clean up code that minimizes the chances of introducing bugs. In essence when you refactor you are improving the design of the code after it has been written.
"Improving the design after it has been written." That's an odd turn of phrase. In our current understanding of software development we believe that we design and then we code. A good design comes first, and the coding comes second. Over time the code will be modified, and the integrity of the system, its structure according to that design, gradually fades. The code slowly sinks from engineering to hacking.
Refactoring is the opposite of this practice. With refactoring you can take a bad design, chaos even, and rework it into well-designed code. Each step is simple, even simplistic. You move a field from one class to another, pull some code out of a method to make into its own method, and push some code up or down a hierarchy. Yet the cumulative effect of these small changes can radically improve the design. It is the exact reverse of the normal notion of software decay.
With refactoring you find the balance of work changes. You find that design, rather than occurring all up front, occurs continuously during development. You learn from building the system how to improve the design. The resulting interaction leads to a program with a design that stays good as development continues. What's in This Book?
This book is a guide to refactoring; it is written for a professional programmer. My aim is to show you how to do refactoring in a controlled and efficient manner. You will learn to refactor in such a way that you don't introduce bugs into the code but instead methodically improve the structure.
It's traditional to start books with an introduction. Although I agree with that principle, I don't find it easy to introduce refactoring with a generalized discussion or definitions. So I start with an example. Chapter 1 takes a small program with some common design flaws and refactors it into a more acceptable object-oriented program. Along the way we see both the process of refactoring and the application of several useful refactorings. This is the key chapter to read if you want to understand what refactoring really is about.
In Chapter 2 I cover more of the general principles of refactoring, some definitions, and the reasons for doing refactoring. I outline some of the problems with refactoring. In Chapter 3 Kent Beck helps me describe how to find bad smells in code and how to clean them up with refactorings. Testing plays a very important role in refactoring, so Chapter 4 describes how to build tests into code with a simple open-source Java testing framework.
The heart of the book, the catalog of refactorings, stretches from Chapter 5 through Chapter 12. This is by no means a comprehensive catalog. It is the beginning of such a catalog. It includes the refactorings that I have written down so far in my work in this field. When I want to do something, such as Replace Conditional with Polymorphism (255), the catalog reminds me how to do it in a safe, step-by-step manner. I hope this is the section of the book you'll come back to often.
In this book I describe the fruit of a lot of research done by others. The last chapters are guest chapters by some of these people. Chapter 13 is by Bill Opdyke, who describes the issues he has come across in adopting refactoring in commercial development. Chapter 14 is by Don Roberts and John Brant, who describe the true future of refactoring, automated tools. I've left the final word, Chapter 15, to the master of the art, Kent Beck. Refactoring in Java
For all of this book I use examples in Java. Refactoring can, of course, be done with other languages, and I hope this book will be useful to those working with other languages. However, I felt it would be best to focus this book on Java because it is the language I know best. I have added occasional notes for refactoring in other languages, but I hope other people will build on this foundation with books aimed at specific languages.
To help communicate the ideas best, I have not used particularly complex areas of the Java language. So I've shied away from using inner classes, reflection, threads, and many other of Java's more powerful features. This is because I want to focus on the core refactorings as clearly as I can.
I should emphasize that these refactorings are not done with concurrent or distributed programming in mind. Those topics introduce additional concerns that are beyond the scope of this book. Who Should Read This Book?
This book is aimed at a professional programmer, someone who writes software for a living. The examples and discussion include a lot of code to read and understand. The examples are all in Java. I chose Java because it is an increasingly well-known language that can be easily understood by anyone with a background in C. It is also an object-oriented language, and object-oriented mechanisms are a great help in refactoring.
Although it is focused on the code, refactoring has a large impact on the design of system. It is vital for senior designers and architects to understand the principles of refactoring and to use them in their projects. Refactoring is best introduced by a respected and experienced developer. Such a developer can best understand the principles behind refactoring and adapt those principles to the specific workplace. This is particularly true when you are using a language other than Java, because you have to adapt the examples I've given to other languages.
Here's how to get the most from this book without reading all of it.
If you want to understand what refactoring is, read Chapter 1; the example should make the process clear. If you want to understand why you should refactor, read the first two chapters. They will tell you what refactoring is and why you should do it. If you want to find where you should refactor, read Chapter 3. It tells you the signs that suggest the need for refactoring. If you want to actually do refactoring, read the first four chapters completely. Then skip-read the catalog. Read enough of the catalog to know roughly what is in there. You don't have to understand all the details. When you actually need to carry out a refactoring, read the refactoring in detail and use it to help you. The catalog is a reference section, so you probably won't want to read it in one go. You should also read the guest chapters, especially Chapter 15.
Building on the Foundations Laid by Others
I need to say right now, at the beginning, that I owe a big debt with this book, a debt to those whose work over the last decade has developed the field of refactoring. Ideally one of them should have written this book, but I ended up being the one with the time and energy.
Two of the leading proponents of refactoring are Ward Cunningham and Kent Beck. They used it as a central part of their development process in the early days and have adapted their development processes to take advantage of it. In particular it was my collaboration with Kent that really showed me the importance of refactoring, an inspiration that led directly to this book.
Ralph Johnson leads a group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that is notable for its practical contributions to object technology. Ralph has long been a champion of refactoring, and several of his students have worked on the topic. Bill Opdyke developed the first detailed written work on refactoring in his doctoral thesis. John Brant and Don Roberts have gone beyond writing words into writing a tool, the Refactoring Browser, for refactoring Smalltalk programs.
Even with all that research to draw on, I still needed a lot of help to write this book. First and foremost, Kent Beck was a huge help. The first seeds were planted in a bar in Detroit when Kent told me about a paper he was writing for the Smalltalk Report Beck, hanoi. It not only provided many ideas for me to steal for Chapter 1 but also started me off in taking notes of refactorings. Kent helped in other places too. He came up with the idea of code smells, encouraged me at various sticky points, and generally worked with me to make this book work. I can't help thinking he could have written this book much better himself, but I had the time and can only hope I did the subject justice.
As I've written this, I wanted to share much of this expertise directly with you, so I'm very grateful that many of these people have spent some time adding some material to this book. Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, and Don Roberts have all written or co-written chapters. In addition, Rich Garzaniti and Ron Jeffries have added useful sidebars.
Any author will tell you that technical reviewers do a great deal to help in a book like this. As usual, Carter Shanklin and his team at Addison-Wesley put together a great panel of hard-nosed reviewers. These were
Ken Auer, Rolemodel Software, Inc. Joshua Bloch, Javasoft John Brant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Scott Corley, High Voltage Software, Inc. Ward Cunningham, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. Stephane Ducasse Erich Gamma, Object Technology International, Inc. Ron Jeffries Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois Joshua Kerievsky, Industrial Logic, Inc. Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego Sander Tichelaar
They all added a great deal to the readability and accuracy of this book, and removed at least some of the errors that can lurk in any manuscript. I'd like to highlight a couple of very visible suggestions that made a difference to the look of the book. Ward and Ron got me to do Chapter 1 in the side-by-side style. Joshua suggested the idea of the code sketches in the catalog.
In addition to the official review panel there were many unofficial reviewers. These people looked at the manuscript or the work in progress on my Web pages and made helpful comments. They include Leif Bennett, Michael Feathers, Michael Finney, Neil Galarneau, Hisham Ghazouli, Tony Gould, John Isner, Brian Marick, Ralf Reissing, John Salt, Mark Swanson, Dave Thomas, and Don Wells. I'm sure there are others who I've forgotton; I apologize and offer my thanks.
A particularly entertaining review group is the infamous reading group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Because this book reflects so much of their work, I'm particularly grateful for their efforts captured in real audio. This group includes Fredrico "Fred" Balaguer, John Brant, Ian Chai, Brian Foote, Alejandra Garrido, Zhijiang "John" Han, Peter Hatch, Ralph Johnson, Songyu "Raymond" Lu, Dragos-Anton Manolescu, Hiroaki Nakamura, James Overturf, Don Roberts, Chieko Shirai, Les Tyrell, and Joe Yoder.
Any good idea needs to be tested in a serious production system. I saw refactoring have a huge effect on the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation system (C3). I want to thank all the members of that team: Ann Anderson, Ed Anderi, Ralph Beattie, Kent Beck, David Bryant, Bob Coe, Marie DeArment, Margaret Fronczak, Rich Garzaniti, Dennis Gore, Brian Hacker, Chet Hendrickson, Ron Jeffries, Doug Joppie, David Kim, Paul Kowalsky, Debbie Mueller, Tom Murasky, Richard Nutter, Adrian Pantea, Matt Saigeon, Don Thomas, and Don Wells. Working with them cemented the principles and benefits of refactoring into me on a firsthand basis. Watching their progress as they use refactoring heavily helps me see what refactoring can do when applied to a large project over many years.
Again I had the help of J. Carter Shanklin at Addison-Wesley and his team: Krysia Bebick, Susan Cestone, Chuck Dutton, Kristin Erickson, John Fuller, Christopher Guzikowski, Simone Payment, and Genevieve Rajewski. Working with a good publisher is a pleasure; they provided a lot of support and help.
Talking of support, the biggest sufferer from a book is always the closest to the author, in this case my (now) wife Cindy. Thanks for loving me even when I was hidden in the study. As much time as I put into this book, I never stopped being distracted by thinking of you.
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Refactoring refers to taking existing, working software, and changing it about to improve its design, so that future modifications and enhancements are easier to add. _Refactoring_ is primarily a catalog of 70 or so different kinds of improvements you can make to object-oriented software.
Each entry in the catalog describes an implementation problem, the solution, motivation for applying the solution, the mechanics of the refactoring, and examples. The book's examples are all in Java, but C++ programmers should be able to approach the refactorings with ease. Often, Fowler diagrams the refactorings in UML, so a little Unified Modeling Language experience will help, too.
While the catalog is nice, the kinds of refactorings are obvious is most cases. Even moderately experienced programmers won't need the step-by-step mechanics described. The real benefit, though, is that the mechanics of each refactoring help guarantee that you can pull off the refactoring without introducing new bugs or side effects. They encourage you to take smaller, verifiable steps, than the more gross refactorings that most developers would naturally take. You actually save time doing so.
How do you know your refactorings are safe? Unit testing is the answer that Fowler et al. provide. Java developers will find the introduction to the Junit Testing Framework the most valuable part of the book, more so than the catalog of refactorings itself.
There's more to the book than the catalog and Junit, of course.
Read more ›Although it is not a flashy or well known title, I believe its impact can be much deeper and long
lasting than many of the mainstream, more popular technology books. The underlying theories
that it teaches can be applied for years, even when languages change.
There are only a couple of things I would change about this book, which I will mention below.
The Preface it brief enough, and gives the definition for the word Refactoring. This is a good thing
because right form the start you get the true definition of Refactoring. In short, refactoring is the
process of changing code to improve the internal structure, but not changing the external
Chapter 1: Refactoring, a First Example
In this chapter Mr. Fowler tries to start by showing a simple Refactoring example. The problem is
that the chapter then goes on for 50+ pages. Mr. Fowler explains his reasons for doing this, but I
think that a simple example should have been much simpler. Especially when it is in the first
chapter of the book. It's not that this isn't a good chapter. I feel it's just too soon in the book. I
would have put it at the end.
Chapter 2: Principles of Refactoring
This is an excellent chapter. The definition of Refactoring is discussed as well as the following
questions: Why should you refactor? When should you refactor? What do I tell my manager? This
last question may seem funny, but when you read this chapter you will understand why it is in
Fowler suggests refactoring a program to simplify the addition of new functionality. The program should also be refactored to make it easier for human readers to understand at the same time.
He also insists that each step is small and preserves functionality, and on frequent unit testing with a comprehensive test suite.
Half of the book consists of a catalogue of refactorings. He gives each refactoring a memorable name, such as "Replace Type Code with Subclasses". He illustrates the design transformation with a pair of UML class diagrams, and has a standard set of sections: Motivation, Mechanics and Example.
The Motivation is a prose section that describes and justifies the refactoring, showing the relationship to other refactorings.
The Mechanics is a sequence of steps needed to carry out the refactoring, shown as a list of bullet points He expands on some points.
The Example is where the value of this book lies. Fowler takes a fragment of Java code, and takes us step by step through the refactoring. The code is small enough that he can show it all each step of the way without overwhelming us, but is large enough to be realistic.
The code is clear enough for non-Java programmers to follow.
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There was a Stonyhurst gathering on Wednesday 8th June 2011 on the River Thames. It was a wonderful evening with supper and Pimms whilst cruising the river taking in the sights of the city as the sun was setting attended by parents, OS and their families as well as the Headmaster, Andrew Johnson, the Chairman of Governors, John Cowdall, and the new Association President, Fr Brendan Callaghan SJ, who recently took over the presidency from Michael Joseph.
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Yeah new videotape showing house majority leader Eric can't her arriving at Capitol Hill on he didn't really say much of any thing.
And he was asked what's going on is there -- deal and he basically said.
Happy new year.
Happy new year happy news -- -- and the senate is not convenient until about 11 AM and it may not be officially -- -- just meeting.
But that was the time that Harry Reid said it would happen Tony Sega is a former press case GOP vice presidential nominee Jack -- and national political correspondent for talk radio news service.
Kirsten Powers is a columnist for the Daily Beast and a Fox News contributor -- -- I think you said that -- the president's really gonna come out getting most of what he wants Heidi of how do you figure that.
Well the president -- even the president wanted and what he really ran on during that entire campaign was.
Raising taxes on people who make over 250000.
Dollars it's possible that threshold could move a little bit -- -- in the president -- about a week or two ago 400000 dollars.
-- threshold on the table so we could see -- -- -- goes up to 400 or 500000 but ultimately he's gonna end up getting.
That the tax increases that he wants some people.
Upper income people and and really have happened.
-- they're given very little up I mean I don't I don't think that there is you know that the -- that around cuts and spending.
He's really where he wanted to be.
There's nothing mean down on sequestration at least the way it's been reported so far which means the defense cuts will go into a fact though they'll probably.
Do something retroactive to trying to -- at some of the -- that's about but.
Overall it's hard to see where the president really didn't come out on top on.
And Tony does that mean Republicans -- to come out on the losing end.
Certainly with the politics on this one Greg without a doubt look the president came into this whole fight -- maximum leverage -- just won the election.
And and frankly.
I don't think he wanted to go over the fiscal cliff but it didn't seem that he was so afraid of going over the cliff if that was the ultimate conclusion if -- were not to get.
The rate.
Increases that he was looking for and of course you negotiated -- -- on the threshold but remember something about the actual rational Chuck Schumer.
And Nancy Pelosi this summer suggested a million dollars be the mark.
For which people begin to pay higher tax rates not 250000.
So I think the president definitely.
-- stretched his definition of millionaires and billionaires by.
Putting the 250 rate -- -- level as that rate but he's also the at the extension of unemployment benefits that he wants as well so.
He certainly outmaneuvered us on this one but -- -- real irony here is that this whole process was worn -- -- deficit reduction -- another reports are it might actually -- the deficit so.
That's kind of pattern war or.
Or at least the 800 plus billion in new revenue would be wiped out.
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Do you think we have a problem with with the deficit and debt yes they say that but it is not the thing that animates them more than -- -- -- enemy experiments.
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That there's a reason that the Republicans had not been very specific -- -- -- concussion they would.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Hi friends! So sorry I've been absent from the blog. Things have been super busy around my home lately. In addition to our normal schedule with homework and after school activities, I've been baking for orders, helping out at my kids' school, and trying to keep my sanity with all the added holiday-related business.
Here is one of the cakes I made recently...a sweet horseshoe! I loved this cake!
I also adopted an adorable kitty from a local shelter. Her name is Bunny...and I love her. :) After losing my other cats to cancer years ago, I was finally able to consider loving another kitty-pie. It was heartbreaking to let my other girls go, so I hope this young lady has a very long, healthy life.
So! My apologies for neglecting the blog. I'll have a yummy gingerbread scone recipe for you this week. A huge THANK YOU to Kim at A Well Seasoned Life for checking on me! Take care, everyone!
Thanks for stopping by!
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- Mary said...
That is a really creative cake. This is my first visit to your blogso I took some time to browse through your earlier posts. I'm glad I did that. You've created a great spot for your readers to visit and I really enjoyed the time I spent here. I'll definitely be back. I hope you have a great day. Blessings...Mary
- December 5, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Kim McCallie said...
So happy to see you back to the blog, Brandy! You're so talented and inspiring. I can't wait to see what you've been up to lately. With two kids myself, I know it's hard to do it all. We all need a break! Merry Christmas!
- December 18, 2011 at 3:48 PM
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December 12, 2012 |
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For those who desire a layer of snow with their holiday season it's been mainly green and brown so far this year in the Boston area. Since the start of December, here are some places that have already had the chance to experience the beauty and sometimes annoyance of a winter wonderland. -- Lloyd Young ( 32 photos total)
Workers clean a model replica of Cheops Pyramid of Giza, after snowfall in landscape park Miniwelt (Miniworld), in Lichtenstein, eastern Germany, on Dec. 7. The cultural park Miniworld presents about 100 original and true-to detail buildings and technical facilities at a 1:25 scale. (Jens Meyer/Associated Press) #


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