July 28, 2008 - ElegantCode

28 Jul

2008

Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

I just read the best article I have come across in a while. Craig Larman and Victor Basili take us to school with a historical perspective on iterative development practices. Thanks, Martin, for the pointer. This article provides a little perspective on the iterative practices discussion with roots going as far back as the 1930s. […]

28 Jul

2008

ReSharper 4.0 Lambda Refactoring

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

Now this is just cool. Start with the following code: Hit ALT+Enter to get the ReSharper drop down Hit the conversion and get this:

28 Jul

2008

A Professional Software Developer Never Says …

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

"Let us cleanup and fix this code later so we can meet our deadline".

28 Jul

2008

Three Qualities that Every Piece of Code Should Have …

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:6 Comments

It should solve a problem and thus it must be valuable to its users. In short, it should do what it must do and simply work. It should be very easy to change. Every piece of code is subject to change, so it should be darn easy to alter its behavior without complete rewrites. Some […]