I was chatting with someone the other day about some code that he had written, and he expressed that he wished he had done it another way. He said that there was a bunch of duplication and that, while he wasn’t sure what he should have done, he didn’t think Continue reading
Wet Behind the Ears As a child in secondary school, you are instructed to do work and have very little choice in the whys and hows of the matter. This tends to be true in college education as well, although as one progresses, some choices are left to the student. Continue reading
Convention or Improvement I was reading (and commenting on) a blog post by Jimmy Bogard at Los Techies yesterday. The basic premise was that, since Systems Hungarian Notation has basically been rejected by the developer community at large, it is interesting that we continue to pre-pend an “I” to interfaces Continue reading
TDD Revisited Again Previously I blogged about TDD with some reservations and then later as I re-introduced myself to the pure practice as I had learned it some many moons ago. For the last month, I have been plowing ahead methodically with this experiment, and I thought I’d revisit some Continue reading
Short but sweet post tonight, and I’m mostly putting this here for reference. It’s annoyed me a few times, and each time I have to google around until I find something like this stack overflow post. If you add a moles assembly for System, unlike other framework assemblies, building your Continue reading
A Tragic Story It starts out innocently enough. You’re out at a party with some friends, and some people you want to impress are there. Everyone is having a good time, but you notice that some of the ‘cool’ kids are periodically going into a room and coming out giggling. Continue reading