Writing maintainable code is for “Code Monkeys”? This morning, I read an interesting blog post from Erik McClure. The premise of the post is that writing maintainable code is sufficiently boring and frustrating as to discourage people from the programming profession. A few excerpts from the post are: There is an endless stream of rheteric…
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…
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…
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. Generally, these are vetted heavily…
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 in C#. The post and…
