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By: Software Development Outsource

Software Development Outsource — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:34:34 +0000

Code will be very critical and undue …@Parag Shah

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By: Parag Shah

Parag Shah — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:43:48 +0000

Very nice post. I especially liked: ‘It is not the tools that make a developer’ – after working with Eclipse for several years, I have restarted working with vim. It’s taking me a while to get used to it, but I am persisting. Even though my productivity may have dropped, I feel like it is helping me get closer to ‘regular expressions’ and similar stuff, which is always a good thing. And not to mention that it is also getting me used to working in a command line environment.

By: Pinderkent: Keeping commented-out code is justifiable.

Pinderkent: Keeping commented-out code is justifiable. — Sun, 24 May 2009 01:02:43 +0000

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By: Haymo van Wyk

Haymo van Wyk — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:39:08 +0000

I’ve enjoyed this lot! As a programmer from ancient times, my experience was : To get a program to work was about 10 – 20% of the job. The remaining 90 or 80% was to try to make it idiot proof. (A plotting program of mine ran for 8 years, before a user hit the one condition I had not allowed for.)

By: Jim Hickstein

Jim Hickstein — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:24:55 +0000

While we’re being pedantic, myriad is an adjective: “in myriad languages”. And don’t get me started about “comprise”. :-)

By: Jim Hickstein

Jim Hickstein — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:20:00 +0000

I can’t resist underlining “code outlives its [developers'] intentions”, with slogan #1 on my own list: All software is permanent.

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By: TechKnow

TechKnow — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:32:26 +0000

At first sight, some of these laws will seems contradicting, for example ‘Your code is your career legacy’ and ‘Don’t take code personal.’ As a programmer I am always learning. I am proud of my code but I know that I am always learning from my team, picking up new idioms, leveraging new libraries, and expanding my tool set that I’ve realize that code can always be improved. In peer reviews I don’t take criticism negatively, I’m willing to learned from senior and junior developers alike.

I like to think that a open source project, running code can say more about your programming abilities than a self aggrandizing cover letter with an alphabet soup of technology abbreviations for a resume. That is what I mean in ‘Your code is your career legacy.’

By: Matt Doar

Matt Doar — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:47:35 +0000

“Commented out code are not comments”

Oh yes, I agree. Comments should be the only thing that use the comment syntax. Disabled code should use another syntax, preferably by not being there.