What is SOPA? For anyone not familiar with the Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) act, a brief primer on it can be found on wikipedia. It is an act being considered by the United States Congress that would allow websites accused (not found guilty of, but accused) of engaging in piracy, promoting piracy, or simply creating…
GitHub Not too long ago, I signed up for GitHub. I had always used subversion for source control when given the choice, but the distributed nature of Git appealed to me, particularly since I often do work on a variety of different machines. GitHub itself appealed to me because it seemed like the perfect venue…
DaedTech is now on… Twitter @daedtech I’ve never really had much interest in Twitter as a personal tool, but in the context of keeping and maintaining a blog, it seems to make sense. So, I’ll use it in conjunction with this blog as a “micro-blog” tool, as well as a vehicle for announcing site posts….
Don’t Generate Compiler Warnings I was doing some work this morning when I received a general email to a group of developers for a large project that sort of pleaded with and sort of demanded that members of the group not check in code that generated compiler warnings. And, I agree with that. Although, with…
Name Smells Revisited A long time ago, I blogged about a concept I dubbed “name smells”. Among other things that I described making me wary of a piece of code just by its name were the words “Helper” and “Manager” in a class name. My issue with this was and is that this tends to…
