Posts Tagged "design-patterns"
Pride in Software Craftsmanship
As I spend more and more time in Silicon Valley, my views on software management are changing. I read Radical Candor recently, and while I…
When Code Duplication is not Code Duplication
Duplicating code is a bad thing. Any engineer worth his salt knows that the more you repeat yourself, the more difficult it will be to…
How Can Comments be Controversial?
Comments add information to your code. They don’t impact the execution of that code. So how can they be bad? I believe that more commenting…
Why are Side Effects Bad?
Side effects are any observable change to the state of an object. Some people might qualify this by saying that side effects are implicit or…