The Origins of Legacy Code I’ve been reading the Michael Feathers book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code and enjoying it immensely. It’s pushing ten years old, but it stands the test of time quite well–probably much better than some of the systems it uses as examples. And there is a lot of wisdom to take…
A Brief History of My Teeth When it comes to teeth, I hit the genetic jackpot. I’m pretty sure that, instead of enamel, my teeth are coated in some sort of thin layer of stone. I’ve never had a cavity and my teeth in general seem impervious to the variety of maladies that afflict other…
It’s pretty likely that, as a software developer that reads blogs about software, you’ve heard of the DRY Principle. In case you haven’t, DRY stands for “Don’t Repeat Yourself,” and the gist of it is that there should only be one source of a given piece of information in a system. You’re most likely to…
When I was in high school, I had a tendency to procrastinate when it came to assignments and, well, pretty much everything in life. I think that this is sort of a staple of the teenage condition. As a result, I’d often stay up late writing some paper the night before it was due and…
I started this as an aside to my post about source files as harmful, but axed it as sort of awkward and too much of a digression. Like a weird sweater that you get for your birthday, though, I couldn’t bring myself to toss it, so I saved it as its own draft. Good thing…
