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…
Order Doesn’t Matter Please pardon the loaded phrasing in the title, but that’s how the message came to me from my subconscious brain: bluntly and without ceremony. I was doing a bit of work in Apex, the object-oriented language specific to Salesforce.com, and it occurred to me that I had no idea what idiomatic Apex…
Switch statements are often (and rightfully, in my opinion) considered to be a code smell. A code smell, if you’ll recall, is a superficial characteristic of code that is often indicative of deeper problems. It’s similar in concept to the term “red flag” for interpersonal relationships. A code smell is like someone you’ve just met…
