There’s an entertainer named Garrison Keillor who talks about the fictional town of Lake Wobegon. At the end of live monologues on this subject, he ‘signs off’ with the following summation. Well, that’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are…
It’s pretty likely that, as a software developer that reads blogs about software, you’ve heard of the DRY Principle. In case you haven’t, DRY stands for “Don’t Repeat Yourself,” and the gist of it is that there should only be one source of a given piece of information in a system. You’re most likely to…
Documentation and Training as Failures Some time back, I was listening to someone explain the finer points of various code that he had written when he lamented the lack of documentation and training available for prospective users of this code. I thought to myself rather blithely and flippantly, “why – just write the code so…
