Programming, usability etc.
I think learning new programming languages is both easy and very difficult. Syntax is nearly always easy, but understanding when to use a language and what are its strong points. Failing at this leads to the familiar “when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” On the other hand I [...]
Earlier today I played Batman Arkham Asylum for a while and quit at some point. I’m about 80% through and just started the game to finish it tonight. No can do: corrupt save and that was that as there is only one save slot per “game”. The reason apparently is that I shut my Xbox [...]
I’ve been toying with Django for a week or so and started building a simple CRUD app. Essentially it is a todo list software. Mainly this is because it is suitably small project and it is also scratching my own itch. For the latter correct solution would be to be lazy and use Todoist or [...]
Scrum et al. – Ken Schwaber Really good presentation about scrum and the philosophy behind it. Great point about the implicit cutting of quality when it seems that project isn’t done at deadline. It’s a recurring theme in software project management literature, but bears repeating.
Recently there was a discussion on Slashdot about code comments. As always it’s mostly people building straw-men and all-out-attacking them. Still, entertaining read. My own commenting practice boils down to: code is up-to-date, hence better to write just verbose code than dense code and comment it explain the “why” in comments Ie. the general Clean [...]
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