canis minor posted:

TheresaJayne posted:

I saw a website the other day that insisted on >8 characters must have Upper and Lower case + Numerals - Special Characters not allowed including space

canis minor posted:

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Editor’s Note

When I approached MSDN Magazine Senior Contributing Editor James McCaffrey to review the preliminary draft of this article, he came away fairly outraged by some of the opinions and ideas put forward by the author. Most days, that would spell curtains for an article draft. But as McCaffrey notes, it’s all too common for new ideas in software engineering to be dismissed simply because they’re new. And while McCaffrey says he’s still outraged by many of the statements in this article, we both agree that it may provoke a lot of thought about software design and methodology paradigms.

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What I’m presenting here isn’t an alternative to Agile or other such methodologies. Agile is, after all, a management framework, not an architectural design pattern. Instead, I’m proposing a design methodology that allows you to more easily become Agile because you can prepare up front for change. Over the past few years I’ve developed a design pattern I call “Active Events.”

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My guess is that your project and class dependencies look like they do in most other projects. It’s highly likely your project’s dependency graph resembles spaghetti. Sorry for being brutally honest, but that’s what my experiences indicate. But, relax, you’re not alone. Although I don’t have hard data, I would claim 98 percent of the world’s code suffers from the same problem. Besides, I wouldn’t force you to confront this issue unless I had a solution for you.

Active Events facilitates zero dependencies across your classes and projects. When it comes to software entanglement, zero is the only acceptable number!

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The Active Events design pattern is actually surprisingly easy to understand. Instead of creating interfaces to separate the implementation and consumer of a piece of logic, you simply mark your methods with an attribute. Here’s an example:

code:

[ActiveEvent (Name = “foo.bar”)]
protected static void foo_bar(ApplicationContext context, ActiveEventArgs e)
{
  var input = e.Args[“input”].Value as string;
  e.Args.Add(“output”, “Hello there ” + var);
}

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To invoke a method that has been defined using the Active Event paradigm is equally simple. Instead of invoking your method directly, you indirectly invoke it through its Active Event name:

code:

/* ... some method in another assembly ... */
var args = new Node ();
args.Add ("input", "John Doe");
/* context is your ApplicationContext instance, which keeps
   track of your Active Events */
var result = context.Raise ("foo.bar", args)["output"].Value as string;

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Also notice that all Active Events have the exact same signature. Hence, classes, interfaces, and methods move a bit behind the scene and become less a focus in the source code.

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However, because no signatures or types need to be known and shared between the consumer and the implementation of an active event, you have more of a black box environment than you might have with OOP. This allows you to easily exchange, for instance, SaveToDatabase with InvokeWebService or SaveToFile.

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Polymorphism is as easy as changing a string. Here’s an example of how to implement polymorphism using Active Events:

code:

string myEvent = "some-active-event";
if (usePolymorphism) {
  myEvent = "some-other-active-event";
}
context.Raise (myEvent);

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This is polymorphism without types. This is polymorphism dynamically determined during runtime. By taking all traditional ideas about polymorphism out of the equation, and refactoring the very essence of polymorphism, you end up with actual working polymorphism—encapsulation and polymorphism, without classes, types, interfaces or design patterns. Chaining your Active Events becomes as easy as combining atoms into molecules. That is agile software!

NihilCredo posted:

WARNING Not for the faint of heart.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt795187


Well, that's an encouraging start.


Go on...


Zero entanglement? No more spaghetti code? Oh boy, am I listening! :iamafag:


wait


wait wat


wait WAT

JawnV6 posted:

Reminds me of that enterprise Java fizz buzz example. No, the other one, where it's "a single line of code" and he's just depressed at how many programmers stroll through his interviews without that glorious insight and pollute his whiteboards with conditionals and such.

NihilCredo posted:

WARNING Not for the faint of heart.

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In this project I created a new programming language, Hyperlambda, for creating Active Events hooks. This allows me to change the implementation of my for-each and while statements if I want. I can also scale out my else statements, to be executed on another server. And I can easily extend the programming language to create my own domain-specific keywords, for doing whatever my domain problems require.

NihilCredo posted:

WARNING Not for the faint of heart.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt795187

Hammerite posted:

~~~HYPERLAMBDA~~~

There's no way it can possibly be serious, the author is a masterful troll.

NihilCredo posted:

Well then that's one heck of an effortful troll:

https://github.com/polterguy/phosphorusfive

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If your Node class conforms to these constraints, you can easily transform almost all possible objects to a Node instance.

darthbob88 posted:

Mind posting it? I assume it's a single line (with a shitload of abstraction and polymorphism behind it)?

B-Nasty posted:

I think it's a tongue-in-cheek dig at javascript and dynamic languages in general

Hammerite posted:

~~~HYPERLAMBDA~~~

There's no way it can possibly be serious, the author is a masterful troll.

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And for the record, even though I perceive Barack Obama as a selfish prick, tyrant, and destroyer of democracy, I have no plans, and have never had any for that matter, to actually go out and snuff him. I also have no prejudice towards black men. Some of my best friends have been “men of colour”.

Internet Janitor posted:

Close; K.

Bognar posted:

He's pretty committed: https://gaiasoul.com/author/phosphorusfive/

edit:
https://gaiasoul.com/2017/03/14/i-said-i-want-to-kill-friend of the family-president-barack-obama/

Athas posted:

I'm not quite sure what the '{2/~3 5!\:x}'-function is doing.

Internet Janitor posted:

modulo unfamiliar syntax

Munkeymon posted:

I think that's the case.

Bognar posted:

He's pretty committed: https://gaiasoul.com/author/phosphorusfive/

edit:
https://gaiasoul.com/2017/03/14/i-said-i-want-to-kill-friend of the family-president-barack-obama/

Cypriot expelled from the US for threatening to kill the president but is looking for work posted:

Unfortunately, I cannot provide you with references, since most people who I work for, seem to not wanting to admit that I have been working for them – Since I am quite controversial.

Munkeymon posted:

gently caress look how wrong I was. That headline is two clicks and some scrolling from that MSDN article, too.

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It took me seven years to unlearn what I had previously learned and to trust my intuition.

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

I once, on a lark, wrote an application that'd create a REST API with Flask from a JSON spec.

I quit when I realized that anything more than simple SQL insert/select and schema updates were going to be nearly impossible to do without building out a DSL that embeds within the JSON.

This guy saw that and said "good idea."