LINKBLOG for May 30, 2008
May 30th, 2008 by AZuidhof
‘ Remember the term ‘Best Practice’ is a lie meant to make you feel better about yourself and your code ‘
(== != Equals)
Scott talks with Carl [Franklin, ed], who is back from a long hiatus, about the joys of programming and getting back to basics
source code example. Always strive for readability in source code
new podcast, via several tweets. Impressive lineup btw!
‘ The problem with test names is that they aren’t executable or required. Making a mistake doesn’t stop the test suite from running ‘ Ahhh, ‘ Test names are glorified comments ‘ gives one something to chew on for the weekend
‘ In my opinion, each development team should be gathering some metrics from NDepend with every build and do a more detailed analysis once in a while ‘
Scott takes Northwind out to the backyard to be shot, and wants your input starting a new sample database over on CodePlex
‘ If you want to get out-of-the-box perspectives or ideas, the best place to look is outside your own “enclosed space” ‘
The Sysinternals Live site will give you flashbacks to 1996, but the idea might not even be so stupid: if you know the location of this file-share, you can access the tools from your uncle’s PC without a download-unzip-install for every tool…
‘(…) Test-Driven Development is a design strategy, not a unit-testing technique. (…) The goal is to write better quality, more reliable, and more accurate code ‘
Go show this to your manager
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