The Clean Code Blog

by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)

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Functional Classes in Clojure
01-19-2023
Functional Classes
01-18-2023
Space War
11-28-2021
Functional Duplications
10-28-2021
Roots
09-25-2021
More On Types
06-29-2021
On Types
06-25-2021
if-else-switch
03-06-2021
Pairing Guidelines
01-17-2021
Solid Relevance
10-18-2020
Loopy
09-30-2020
Conference Conduct
09-23-2020
The Disinvitation
09-12-2020
REPL Driven Design
05-27-2020
A Little More Clojure
04-09-2020
A Little Clojure
04-06-2020
A New Hope
04-05-2020
Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
11-08-2019
What They Thought of Programmers.
11-03-2019
Circulatory
10-31-2019
Why Clojure?
08-22-2019
Why won't it...
07-22-2019
Classes vs. Data Structures
06-16-2019
Types and Tests
06-08-2019
737 Max 8
05-18-2019
FP vs. OO List Processing
12-17-2018
We, The Unoffended
12-16-2018
SJWJS
12-14-2018
The Tragedy of Craftsmanship.
08-28-2018
Too Clean?
08-13-2018
Integers and Estimates
06-21-2018
Pickled State
06-06-2018
Craftsman, Craftswoman, Craftsperson
05-02-2018
FP vs. OO
04-13-2018
In The Large
04-02-2018
We Programmers
03-29-2018
Uncle Bob Fly-In.
Have I got a deal for you!
02-25-2018
The Citizenship Argument
01-18-2018
Operating Behind the Power Curve
01-15-2018
Excuses
12-18-2017
Dbtails
12-09-2017
Bobby Tables
12-03-2017
Living on the Plateau
11-18-2017
Women In Demand
10-04-2017
Tools are not the Answer
10-04-2017
Test Contra-variance
10-03-2017
The Unscrupulous Meme
09-29-2017
Sierra Juliet Foxtrot
09-26-2017
Just Following Orders
08-28-2017
Women in Tech
08-14-2017
On the Diminished Capacity to Discuss Things Rationally
08-10-2017
Thought Police
08-09-2017
The Brain Problem
07-28-2017
Drive me to Toronto, Hal.
07-24-2017
Pragmatic Functional Programming
07-11-2017
First-Class Tests.
05-05-2017
Is Dr. Calvin in the Room?
03-16-2017
Symmetry Breaking
03-07-2017
Testing Like the TSA
03-06-2017
TDD Harms Architecture
03-03-2017
Necessary Comments
02-23-2017
Types and Tests
01-13-2017
The Dark Path
01-11-2017
TDD Lesson - Terrain Generation
01-09-2017
TDD Doesn't Work
11-10-2016
Dijkstra's Algorithm
10-26-2016
The Lurn
09-01-2016
The Churn
07-27-2016
Mutation Testing
06-10-2016
Blue. No! Yellow!
05-21-2016
Type Wars
05-01-2016
Giving Up on TDD
03-19-2016
Manhandled
01-15-2016
Stabilization Phases
01-14-2016
A Little Architecture
01-04-2016
Prelude to a Profession
11-27-2015
The Programmer's Oath
11-18-2015
The Force of Pliers
11-01-2015
Future Proof
10-30-2015
Agile is not now, nor was it ever, Waterfall.
10-16-2015
VW
10-14-2015
WATS Line 54
10-05-2015
A Little Structure
09-23-2015
Make the Magic go away.
08-06-2015
Pattern Pushers
07-05-2015
The Little Singleton
07-01-2015
The First Micro-service Architecture
05-28-2015
Language Layers
04-27-2015
Does Organization Matter?
04-15-2015
The MODE-B Imperative
02-21-2015
They Called them Computers.
02-19-2015
'Interface' Considered Harmful
01-08-2015
The Cycles of TDD
12-17-2014
OO vs FP
11-24-2014
Thorns around the Gold
11-19-2014
The Obligation of the Programmer.
11-15-2014
One Hacker Way!
11-12-2014
Laughter in the male dominated room.
10-26-2014
GOML-1, Responsive Design
10-08-2014
Clean Micro-service Architecture
10-01-2014
Microservices and Jars
09-19-2014
The More Things Change...
09-18-2014
Test Time
09-03-2014
A Little About Patterns.
06-30-2014
My Lawn
06-20-2014
Is TDD Dead?
Final Thoughts about Teams.
06-17-2014
First
05-19-2014
The Little Mocker
05-14-2014
The Open Closed Principle
05-12-2014
Framework Bound[2]
05-11-2014
When to Mock
05-10-2014
The Single Responsibility Principle
05-08-2014
Professionalism and TDD (Reprise)
05-02-2014
Test Induced Design Damage?
05-01-2014
When TDD doesn't work.
04-30-2014
Monogamous TDD
04-25-2014
Code Hoarders
04-03-2014
The True Corruption of Agile
03-28-2014
When Should You Think?
03-11-2014
A Spectrum of Trust
02-27-2014
Oh Foreman, Where art Thou?
02-23-2014
Where is the Foreman?
02-21-2014
The Domain Discontinuity
01-27-2014
Coding in the Clink (9)
01-20-2014
Extreme Programming, a Reflection
12-10-2013
Novices. A Coda
11-25-2013
Hordes Of Novices
11-19-2013
Healthcare.gov
11-12-2013
The Careless Ones
10-24-2013
Dance you Imps!
10-01-2013
A.T. FAIL!
09-26-2013
Test First
09-23-2013
Transformation Priority and Sorting
05-27-2013
The Transformation Priority Premise
05-27-2013
Flash - TPP
05-27-2013
Fib. The T-P Premise.
05-27-2013
There are Ladies Present
03-22-2013
The Frenzied Panic of Rushing
03-11-2013
An Open and Closed Case
03-08-2013
The Pragmatics of TDD
03-06-2013
The Start-Up Trap
03-05-2013
The Principles of Craftsmanship
02-10-2013
The Humble Craftsman
02-01-2013
The Laborer and the Craftsman
01-30-2013
FP Basics E4
01-29-2013
FP Basics E3
01-07-2013
FP Basics E2
01-02-2013
Brave New Year
12-29-2012
FP Basics E1
12-22-2012
Three Paradigms
12-19-2012
The New CTO
09-06-2012
Functional Programming for the Object Oriented Programmer
08-24-2012
The Clean Architecture
08-13-2012
NO DB
05-15-2012
Why is Estimating so Hard?
04-20-2012
After the Disaster
04-18-2012
Service Oriented Agony
02-01-2012
The Ruby Colored Box
01-31-2012
Fecophiles
01-20-2012
The Letter
01-12-2012
Flipping the Bit
01-11-2012
The Barbarians are at the Gates
12-11-2011
Clean Architecture
11-22-2011
Double Entry Bookkeeping Dilemma. Should I Invest or Not?
11-06-2011
Simple Hickey
10-20-2011
Screaming Architecture
09-30-2011
Bringing Balance to the Force
01-19-2011
What Software Craftsmanship is about
01-17-2011