<Warning_Rant_AHead> Today I was reviewing some commits by our team and I ran into one commit in general that first made me vomit a bit in my mouth, then get pissed as all hell that we committed code like this. The code that was committed was a minor change to one of our ‘legacy’ (aka...
The blogosphere has gone a bit crazy the last few days with posts responding to Joel Spolsky’s latest article about "The Duct Tape Programmer" . Bloggers everywhere are tossing their two cents in and saying what parts of Joel's post was good and what wasn't good. Once noticeable trend...
After a really good evening at CRineta , I hop online to post a final tweet of the night only to see that my account has been suspended: Very strange indeed. I've looked over the terms of service and to be honest I can't see where I've faltered at all. *Sigh* If I'm silent on Twitter...
This is just a quick little rant on my part. In my opinion a property should be used for simply getting/setting of a value. You should NOT have any logic inside your getter/setter (ok, I will add a 'caviot' to this rule and say that I am ok with doing string formatting on the getter). If you...
I just read Ron Jefferies latest post entitled My Named Cloud is Better Than Your Named Cloud and it got me riled up enough to post something I've been meaning to write about for at least a couple of years. His post touches on the point I'd wanted to make, but doesn't quite say it as simply...