There’s something I’ve found myself stressing a lot lately to people on my team. It’s a thing that probably seems to most like nitpicking, but I think is one of the most, if not the most, under-stressed aspects of programming. I’m talking about picking good names for things. I’ve seen that people often give methods,…
These days, a good portion of my time is spent on overhead tasks: management tasks, strategy meetings, this sort of thing. In my role, I also am responsible for the broad architectural decisions. But what I don’t get to do nearly as often between 9 and 5 these days is write code. All of the…
I recently asked a semi-rhetorical question on Twitter about health insurance in the USA. Specifically, it seems deeply weird to me that health insurance is tied in with employment. I mean, your employer doesn’t subsidize your homeowner’s, auto, or renter’s insurance, so why health insurance? Someone answered that this was an end-run around salary caps…
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, and I didn’t want to let the series die, so here goes. The “Why This Should Matter to You” Story You’ve probably heard people you work with say thing like, “this is going to run in O of N squared, but mine is going to…
PostSharp and Log4Net I tweeted a bit about this, and now I’m going to post about my initial experience with it. This comes from the perspective of someone new at this particular setup but familiar with the concepts in general. So, what are PostSharp and log4net? First up, log4net. This is extremely easy to understand,…
