A Simpler Time When I was in college in the late 90’s, we didn’t use source control. The concept existed but wasn’t pervasive in my environment. (Or, if it was, I have no recollection of using it). And, why use it? We were working projects lasting less than a semester (usually far less) and in…
Getting Philosophical Given that I’ve just changed jobs, it isn’t entirely surprising that I’ve had a lot of conversations recently about why I decided to do so. Generally when someone leaves a job, coworkers, managers, HR personnel, friends, and family are all interested in knowing why. Personally, I tend to give unsatisfying answers to this…
Hello, all. My apologies for the unannounced posting hiatus. I’ve recently started a new employment venture and I was also on vacation last week, touring the Virgina/Pennsylvania/DC area. Going forward, I’m going to be doing more web-related stuff and probably be a little more of a jack of all trades, so stay tuned for posts…
If Then, If Then, If Then Yesterday’s post where I included Grady Booch’s comment that clean code “reads like well written prose” made me think of something I’ve been contemplating. The other day I was looking at some code and I saw the following (obfuscated): public void GrabUmbrellaIfNecessary() { if (IsItRaining()) { if (DoINeedToLeave()) {…
There is a Linq extension method that I managed to miss for a long time: Any(). It’s fairly natural to miss this, I believe, since the paradigm of collections tends to be fully ingrained in our way of doing things. That is, if I want to see if any members of a collection match a…
