Thursday, 23. Jul 2020
Roughly seven months ago I came across an odd behaviour of Visual Studio that I thought wasn’t possible and that broke my code at runtime. I asked on Stack Overflow hoping that someone could point me in the right direction, but that didn’t happen and Google wasn’t very helpful either. Curiosity finally made me tackle the issue myself once I found the time for it. This article is basically Helmuth von Moltke’s theory of war set in a programming scenario, and it serves as a good example of how important it is to adapt your design during development. No design or architecture extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with a user or a working prototype. Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (if he had been a nerd) Before… Continue Reading…