Episode 39
39: Michael Feathers - First Class Error Handling, Tell Don't Ask, and Collection Pipelines
In this episode, Adam talks to Michael Feathers, author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code, about strategies for writing cleaner error handling code, the "tell don't ask" principle, and transforming data with collection pipelines.
April 5, 201658m 57s
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Show Notes
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Links:
- Refactoring to Collections, Adam's book
- Michael's Blog
- r7k, Michael's company
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- The Null Object Pattern
- The Haskell Maybe Monad
- Giant Robots podcast on Tell Don't Ask vs. SRP
- Learn You a Haskell
- APL Programming Language
- Michael's Arrays on Steroids presentation
- Building guitar tab with collection pipelines
- The Spaceship Operator Tweet
- The Agile Alliance Technical Conference
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