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	<title>Software is too expensive to build cheaply... &#187; refactoring</title>
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	<description>Robert's Rambling Ruminations Regarding Reality</description>
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		<title>Deleting code gives me a warm fuzzy feeling&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love it when I get to delete code. Deleting code, particularly dead code, is such a wonderfully therapeutic exercise. You should try it some time.

That&#8217;s why I love it when I find code like the method I just stumbled across. It cast the result of a Hibernate Session.find()[1] call directly to a domain object. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expressing Intent vs Duplication</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting conversation with a colleague this afternoon. It centred around what was more important: expressing intent (which I was advocating) vs. removing duplication.

Some context: we were refactoring a poorly written unit test that was aimed at testing certain validation rules. The tests tended to be very similar: create an object by setting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refactoring vs Re-architecting vs Redesign vs Rewriting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2004 08:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[refactoring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a comment on an earlier post Jon Eaves expressed concern that refactoring is being over-used as a verb. In particular, the line between refactoring and rearchitecting (or rewriting) was being blurred, and refactoring was being used as a label for any activity where you go back and do things right the second time. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIO Magazine article on Refactoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2004 02:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got interviewed a few months ago by a journalist from CIO Magazine. Here&#8217;s the article.
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		<title>Refactoring the &#8220;The Two Towers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lord of the rings]]></category>
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