On Being Deliberately Unclear For whatever reason lately, I’ve been drawing a lot of inspiration from Programmers’ Stack Exchange, and today brings another such post. However, unlike other questions, reading this one seriously made me sad. The questions, the answers, its existence… all of it made me sad in the same kind of way that…
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…
Not too long ago, someone asked me to take a look at a relatively simple application designed with the notion of having some future flexibility in mind. I poked around a bit to see what was where and found a reasonably simple and straightforward application. Like any, it had its warts, but there were no…
