BibSonomy bookmarks for /user/brightbyte/wisdom%20programming

Programmers are, in their hearts, architects, and the first thing they want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand.

You Arent Gonna Need It

brightbyte — 2012-10-11T14:54:37+02:00

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?YouArentGonnaNeedIt

Chapter I: Notes on structured programming

brightbyte — 2012-03-30T17:27:56+02:00

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1243381

(1) Michael Wolfe's answer to Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? - Quora

brightbyte — 2012-02-08T08:00:44+01:00

http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software-development-task-estimations-regularly-off-by-a-factor-of-2-3/answer/Michael-Wolfe

What is the best coding test to give a potential employee? - Quora

brightbyte — 2012-02-07T23:27:17+01:00

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-coding-test-to-give-a-potential-employee

How I Develop Things and Why

brightbyte — 2012-01-30T10:50:48+01:00

http://www.kennethreitz.com/how-i-develop-things-and-why.html

Holographic code — The Endeavour

brightbyte — 2012-01-10T10:28:59+01:00

Somewhere along the way, programmers learn the “DRY” principle: Don’t Repeat Yourself. This is good advice, within reason. But if you wring every bit of redundancy out of your code, you end up with something like Huffman encoded source. In fact, DRY is very much a compression algorithm. In moderation, it makes code easier to maintain. But carried too far, it makes reading your code like reading a zip file. Sometimes a little redundancy makes code much easier to read and maintain.

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. | jwz

brightbyte — 2011-11-29T19:51:09+01:00

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-sell-a-con/

Programming, Motherfucker

brightbyte — 2011-09-13T18:27:03+02:00

We are tired of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Software Craftsmanship (aka XP-Lite) and anything else getting in the way of...Programming, Motherfucker. We are tired of being told we're autistic idiots who need to be manipulated to work in a Forced Pair Programming chain gang without any time to be creative because none of the 10 managers on the project can do...Programming, Motherfucker.

Software’s Receding Hairline - raganwald's posterous

brightbyte — 2011-09-12T11:36:07+02:00

http://raganwald.posterous.com/javas-comb-over

10 ways to improve your programming skills — AntoArts

brightbyte — 2011-07-02T10:09:34+02:00

http://www.antoarts.com/10-ways-to-improve-your-programming-skills/

The Most Important Code Isn't Code

brightbyte — 2011-06-12T20:58:36+02:00

http://zachholman.com/posts/documentation/

Bertrand Meyer's technology blog » Blog Archive » Publish no loop without its invariant

brightbyte — 2011-05-18T13:05:55+02:00

Leve

assertTrue( ): How to write fast code

brightbyte — 2011-04-05T09:12:08+02:00

"The CPU," he said, "runs at a certain speed. It can execute a fixed number of instructions per second, and no more. There is a finite limit to how many instructions per second it can execute. Right?" "Right," I said. "So there is no way, really, to make code go faster, because there is no way to make instructions execute faster. There is only such a thing as making the machine do less." He paused for emphasis. "To go fast," he said slowly, "do less."