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Carl-Hugo Marcotte
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Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Carl-Hugo Marcotte is a software craftsman who has developed digital products professionally since 2005, while his coding journey started around 1989 for fun. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has acquired a solid background in software architecture and expertise in ASP.NET Core through creating a wide range of web and cloud applications, from custom e-commerce websites to enterprise applications. He served many customers as an independent consultant, taught programming, and is now a Principal Architect at Export Development Canada. Passionate about C#, ASP.NET Core, AI, automation, and Cloud computing, he fosters collaboration and the open-source ethos, sharing his expertise with the tech community.
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Don’t repeat yourself (DRY)

The DRY principle advocates the separation of concerns principle and aims to eliminate redundancy in code as well. It promotes the idea that each piece of knowledge or logic should have a single, unambiguous representation within a system.So, when you have duplicated logic in your system, encapsulate it and reuse that new encapsulation in multiple places instead. If you find yourself writing the same or similar code in multiple places, refactor that code into a reusable component instead. Leverage functions, classes, modules, or other abstractions to refactor the code.Adhering to the DRY principle makes your code more maintainable, less error-prone, and easier to modify because a change in logic or bug fix needs to be made in only one place, reducing the likelihood of introducing errors or inconsistencies.However, it is imperative to regroup duplicated logic by concern, not only by the similarities of the code itself. Let’s look at those two classes...

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Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Carl-Hugo Marcotte is a software craftsman who has developed digital products professionally since 2005, while his coding journey started around 1989 for fun. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has acquired a solid background in software architecture and expertise in ASP.NET Core through creating a wide range of web and cloud applications, from custom e-commerce websites to enterprise applications. He served many customers as an independent consultant, taught programming, and is now a Principal Architect at Export Development Canada. Passionate about C#, ASP.NET Core, AI, automation, and Cloud computing, he fosters collaboration and the open-source ethos, sharing his expertise with the tech community.
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