Last week, in a post that either broke the Google+ counter mechanism or blew up there in very isolated fashion, I talked about job hopping and meandered my way to my own personal conclusion as to whether it might be construed as unethical. I don’t think it is. Today I’d like to talk a bit…
A while back, I wrote a post in which I talked about offering too much code and too many options to other potential users of your code. A discussion emerged in the comments roughly surrounding the merits of the design heuristic affectionately known as “YAGNI,” or “you ain’t gonna need it.” In a vacuum, this…
My garbage disposal stopped working recently. I turned it on and could hear only the strained hum of the motor, so naturally I proceeded straight to the internet. I usually do that to see what others think of a situation, though my guess was that something was jamming up the works and preventing the motor…
For those that have been reading my more recent posts, which have typically been about broad-level software design or architecture concerns, I should probably issue a rant alert. This is somewhat of a meandering odyssey through the subject of the current prevalence of job hopping, particularly among the so-called millenial generation. I thought I might…
In 1968, Edsger Dijkstra issued a letter entitled “Go To Statement Considered Harmful,” and the age of structured programming was born. The letter was a call to stop programmers of the time from creating ad-hoc control flow structures using goto statements and to instead use these higher level constructs for manipulating flow through a function…
