Tag Archives: code

Retweet April 2012

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe. Software Development Too often I’ve seen code that made me lose my [...]

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The Big Rewrite

When working with legacy code, there is a big difference between a developer trying to add or fix a feature and getting it to work and another developer trying and giving up only to recommend a complete rewrite. From my experience, the one main reason why any person suggest a complete rewrite of an existing [...]

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The Code Rules

Rules to code by… No consultant code. No complacent code. No crappy and sloppy code. No cut and past code.

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Retweet September 2011

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe. Software Development Code. Money. Respect. Software bugs don’t take anything personally. Code [...]

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Team We

Even when I have been the sole developer in a class, interface, module, library, or feature I try to always report progress as “We.” For defects and issues it’s always easy to point out the fault and personalize the problem when it was caused by someone else. Avoid naming names or singling out an individual. [...]

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Find the Current Working Directory in Java

There are times when you don’t have full control of the location where your Java application runs from. This could happen because the application is installed in a location other than the one recommended by the installer, or because it ran from the IDE, or some other reason. For whatever reason, if you need to [...]

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