I’ll let you in on a little secret. The key to writing good comments is … (rolling the drums) … not writing them at all! Let me elaborate on that. To me, there are two kinds of comments: The ones who appear right in the guts of a particular method. The ones who appear right […]
Read MoreI know all of you who are using C# 3.0 (released with .Net 3.5) have found some of the goodness that is in System.Linq. My current favorite is FirstOrDefault. This little extension method returns the first element of a list, or the first element that meets a criteria, or returns the object’s default value. If […]
Read MoreThis video shows a demo of Android and (wait for it), announces a $10 million dollar developer fund for the like of you and me. That makes Sprint’s $25,000 contest for the Instinct on Java BREW kinda cute.
Read MoreAs well as being a Software guy, I also enjoy coaching “club” soccer to kids. I often find hidden lessons from coaching kids that correlate to being a technical leader in an organization. A few years back I had a conversation with our soccer club director, Dave, regarding some frustration I was having teaching a […]
Read MoreThis is what happened in the first week spent at home of Davie-O’s self employment: 1) Davie-O had to ask me when the last time he took a shower was. AND 2) He spent a day wearing THIS, and singing “I’m Hot Like A Biscuit” to the tune of “In A Gada Davida”. I […]
Read MoreIn this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, Jared Richardson visited with David and Chris. Jared is the author of Ship It! and a frequent speaker on the Java No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Jared shares some stories earned through working with large and small organizations adopting Agile, and his own advice for individuals wanting […]
Read MoreI know that there are numerous blog posts already written about this topic, but I just can’t resist. I’ve just had it with commented-out code. Sure, everybody agrees that this is evil in it’s purest form, but why do I still have to endure so much commented-out code. It’s bad for my heart. Don’t trust […]
Read MoreI just finished reading Release It!. I know that Ayende is really fond of this book, and I can’t blame him. Like most books I’ve read over the last couple of years, this book is not about the technology -du-jour. It’s about how to design and build software that stays up-and-running in a production environment. […]
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