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This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. After 10 weeks, it's time to wrap up our series about code smells. Let's go out with imprinting the acronym YAGUI in our collective minds! In this post, we will discuss dead cod…

This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. In our previous post, we looked at refactoring our code in a way that makes it more extensible, using dependency injection (DI) and composition. This week, let's contrast that w…

This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. Last week, we looked at using constructors vs. factory methods, and how sometimes factories can help make our code more readable. In this post, let's look at the concept of depe…

This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. Last week, we looked at additional ways of bringing the code language closer to the business language. Today, we will discuss the usage of new vs. factory methods, and if we can…

This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. So far in this series about code smells, we've made the point that keeping the language of the code close to the language of the business is crucial to reducing misunderstanding…

This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. Welcome back to our series about code smells! Today, we'll look at overriding the ToString method and making use of extension methods. In this series: Sharpen your sense …

This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. In the previous post of this series, we presented the value of using data containers instead of plain primitives to provide a representation of data that is closer to the real d…

This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. Good to see you back! In our series about code smells, so far we have seen various theoretical cases. Today, we will look at an example that can be found in many code bases: spe…

For the next 10 weeks, we'll have weekly posts by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. Keep an eye on our blog! As humans, we have plenty of sweat glands all over the skin. As coders, we have plenty of lines of code all over the project repository. In hum…

The most advanced IDE for Java developers, IntelliJ IDEA, is also an open platform that is ideally suited for building of custom developer tools. From time to time we'll be selecting one of many plugins created by the community to feature on our blog. Today we’re going to speak about Twitter’s tool …

At JetBrains we're always listening to developers, and Android developers are no exception. Based on this tight feedback loop, we've made a long list of changes to our award-winning IDE which will hopefully make development of Android apps an even bigger pleasure. Here’s what IntelliJ IDEA 13 has to…