Tag : Engineering

• LBYL vs. EAFP May 23rd 2007 Coding Style Engineering There are basically two error handling strategies: * Look Before You Leap (LBYL) * It's Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission (EAFP) I'm going to ...
• 110% of 80% = Success! May 24th 2007 Problem Solving Engineering There's a neat little formula for you... on the surface, it makes even less sense than a coach exhorting his players to give "110%." It's ...
• Overhead Limits Quality June 5th 2007 Engineering Light, not heavy, development processes allow for the highest quality code. This idea is quite popular these days. I'd like to offer an intuitive explanation ...
• Programmers, Developers, and Hackers, oh my! August 9th 2007 Engineering Are you a computer programmer, hacker, or scientist? Perhaps a software developer, engineer, designer, or architect? Despite having plenty of connotations, these titles don't have ...
• Software Craftsmanship and Engineering January 20th 2008 Engineering What can you learn from your daily horoscope? For the sake of argument, let's agree that the stars don't actually say anything about your future. ...
• Semantic Code April 30th 2008 Problem Solving Coding Style Engineering > [se·man·tic][SD] (sĭ-măn'tĭk) adj. > 1. Of or relating to meaning, especially meaning in language. [SD]: http://www.answers.com/topic/semantic Programming destroys meaning. When we program, we first ...
• Factory Methods October 12th 2008 C++ Coding Style Engineering Java Ah, object creation. Why must you be so problematic? Is it the way you inject dependencies on global classes into the most innocent of code? ...