Where the Message Gets Lost In Teaching TDD I recently answered a programmers’ stackexchange post about test-driven development. (As an aside, it will be cool when me linking to a SE question drives more traffic their way than them linking to me drives my way 🙂 ). As I’m wont to do, I said a…
In the last few months, I’ve seen a number of tweets and posts decrying or at least cautioning against the use of productivity tools (e.g. CodeRush, ReSharper, and JustCode). The reasoning behind this is is generally some variant of the notion that such tools are more akin to addictive drugs than to sustainable life improvements….
I generally subscribe to the notion that a huge (and almost universally underrated) part of being a software developer is coming up with good names for things. The importance of naming concepts ranges from the macro-consideration of what to call languages or frameworks (how about “.NET” and “javascript” as preposterously confusing naming-fails) to the application…
Appropos of nothing, I’d like to make a very brief post of a list of terms, with links to where you can read more about them. These terms describe concepts that, when understood, I believe can help make you sharper in the way you approach things as a programmer. I don’t mean that learning them…
Heavily Commented Code: The Awful Empathy Imagine a feeling–that empathy you get when you’re watching someone fail in front of an audience. Perhaps its a comedian relying on awful puns and props or a person in a public speaking course that just freezes after forgetting some lines. Ugh. It’s so awkward that it hurts. It’s…
