I think there’s a lot of value to the conservation angle of the green movement. In general, it’s a matter of efficiency–if you can heat/light/whatever your house with the same quality of life, using less energy and fewer resources, that’s a win for everyone. This applies to a whole lot of things beyond just eco-concerns,…
Do you ever open a source code file and see a method that starts at the top of your screen and kind of oozes its way to the bottom with no end in sight? When you find yourself in that situation, imagine that you’re reading a ticker tape and try to guess at where the…
Order Doesn’t Matter Please pardon the loaded phrasing in the title, but that’s how the message came to me from my subconscious brain: bluntly and without ceremony. I was doing a bit of work in Apex, the object-oriented language specific to Salesforce.com, and it occurred to me that I had no idea what idiomatic Apex…
For this Friday, I thought I’d do something a little more lighthearted and, in the tradition of bad television (or Robot Chicken’s satire thereof) post some programming bloopers. These are actual things that I’ve personally seen in source code as opposed to some kind of specific sampling of CodeSOD from the Daily WTF. Doing this…
Have you ever seen code that looked like the snippet here? public class Menagerie { private List _animals = new List(); public void AddAnimal(Animal animal) { _animals.Add(animal); } public void MakeNoise() { foreach (var animal in _animals) { if (animal is Cat) ((Cat)animal).Meow(); else if (animal is Dog) ((Dog)animal).Bark(); } } } You probably have…
