Showing posts with label coder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coder. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 03, 2019

Problem Solving

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Beware of the person who knows all the answers: Suppose two politicians are running for president, and one goes through the farm section a...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Provide All The Information The User Needs And Nothing More

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A key part of the design process is the precise definition of each and every software component in the system. This specification will be...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Use Efficient Algorithms

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Knowledge of the theory of algorithm complexity is an absolute prerequisite for being a good designer. Given any specific problem, you co...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Write Programs For People First

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In the early days of computing, computers were relatively slow. Almost anything that could be done to shave off a few instructions was wor...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Use Meaningful Names

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Some programmers insist on naming variables with names like nflt or nFlight. The usual argument is that it makes programmers more product...

Avoid Side-Effects

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A side-effect of a procedure is something the procedure does that is not its main purpose and that is visible (or whose results are perce...
Monday, December 10, 2018

Write To Read Top-Down

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People generally read a program from top to bottom. Write your programs to help others understand them. Among the implications of this pr...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

Avoid Global Variables

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Global variables make it convenient to write programs; after all, if you need to access or change x, you just do it. Unfortunately, if x...
Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Avoid Tricks

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Many programmers love to create programs with tricks. These are constructs that perform a function correctly, but in a particularly obscu...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Store Requirements in a Database

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Keep in mind that the follow quote is from 1995. It is still completely relevant. Requirements are complex and highly volatile. For the...
Monday, November 26, 2018

Self-Destruct TBDs

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A software requirements specification (SRS) with a TODO or TBD (To Be Determined) note is obviously not complete. There may be good reaso...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Strive To Fix What You Can

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I will admit to sometimes getting frustrated at work when someone doesn't want to work in a specific codebase because they think it has ...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Quality is #1

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A product with poor quality should not be tolerated. Delivering a product at the cost of quality should only be accepted in the short-term. ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Not Even In The Same Ballpark

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Not so long ago, a new Product Manager told me that she also is a programmer... a software engineer. She implied that if she wanted she coul...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Managing Technical Debt

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Technical debt is all the shortcuts that save money or speed up progress today at the risk of costing money or slowing down progress in the ...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

Web Development Best Practices

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The following are techniques for maximizing website performance on mobile devices. Personally, since more and more mobile devices are being ...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Pair Programming

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I'm a big fan of pair programming. I have used it many times and almost everytime the result was better code that was developed faster. ...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Merciless Refactoring

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Many people are afraid to make code changes out of fear that they will break the code. To ensure you can safely make code changes you should...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Donald Knuth

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Dr. Dobb's Journal published an Interview with Donald Knuth in April of 1996. It was a very good read. Knuth discusses what distinguis...