It amazes me that in this day and age the question of whether to comment your code is still being raised. This issue is such a no-brainer, I fail to see how so many developers can miss the importance of well commented code.
I've heard all the arguments, ranging from "it takes too much time" to "your…
For a while now, I've been browsing freelance programming sites, looking to make a little money. Today, on "GetAFreelance.com", I came across one particular person posting up jobs.
Nothing particularly interesting there.
However, a quick glance at the jobs this person is posting and you begin to fee…
Okay, I know pundits out there will point at the "productivity" gains of Agile programming (see my blog post on Productivity vs. Effectiveness to see why I feel this is a farce), but I thought I'd go ahead and share a fun Dilbert cartoon on the topic:
Often I read on blogs and such of how one cannot call a given programming language slow - that's it's the individual implementation of the language or a runtime which is to blame. Here is an example of such a post.
I disagree.
If we look at core language specifications, it become abundantly clear th…
Considering my fondness for language bashing (particularly, when it comes to such little programming gems as Perl, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, Modula-2, Ada, Haskel, CAML to name a few that I think are terrible) I decided that if I'm going to have an opinion of a language, I'd better be able to back …
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