Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Infragistics blog. I’ve heard a bit of conventional wisdom in the software industry. It holds that people will read a given line of code an order of magnitude more times than they’ll modify it. Whether that wisdom results from a rigorous study or not, I do…
I haven’t traveled this week (at least, not for work). As a result of that, I’ve sat at home, where I tend to have somewhat higher social media consumption. I therefore couldn’t help but see this post about “confessing coding sins.” Twitter has, apparently, overflowed with established software developers ‘confessing’ that they would fail Gigantech…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SubMain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, download CodeIt.Right and give it a try. The balance among types of feedback drives some weird interpersonal dynamics and balances. For instance, consider the rather trite (if effective) management technique of…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, have a look at the tech debt quantification features of the new NDepend version. You should write maintainable code. I assume people have told you this, at some point. The admonishment…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SubMain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, check out GhostDoc. Think back to college (or high school, if applicable). Do you remember that kid that would sit near the front of the class and gleefully point out that…
