Posts filed under “Opinions”
On Looking For A Job And Online Reputation
As many of you know I am finishing up my last semester at school and at the same time on the lookout for jobs (For those interested, you can look at my résumé). As a part of the last few classes I have to finish, I am taking a CPSC Seminar course which so far [...]
OSS Bugs Are Features
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a presentation given by whurley at a refreshBCS meeting a long time ago. He gave his presentation on Open Source Software, only SLIGHTLY an era of his expertise (just in case you can’t tell, that was sarcasm) and raise an interesting point. He talked about how when BMC [...]
Are we still arguing the merits of code comments?
So I see a link on reddit today to an article entitled No, your code is not so great that it doesn’t need comments. The article site was down so I started reading the comments and was very disheartened to see an actual debate over whether pro developers put comments in or left them out. [...]
Laziness Makes A Great Developer
One of the guiding principles I have lived by the came from my middle school swimming coach. He told us: Don’t do more work than you have to. On first glance, it doesn’t seem to be very good advice. However when you realize that what he was getting at was we shouldn’t waste energy on [...]