Thursday, July 18, 2013

Some people may think I have a perfectionism problem.  It all depends on whom you ask and what it relates to.  I am a computer programmer both by trade and hobby.  In the years I have spent in my chosen field I have learned a lot about it and have encountered endless amounts of code written by others.  One of the biggest pet peeves I have always had is poorly done code.  There are two aspects of this I would like to discuss:...

Friday, July 12, 2013

As a follow-up to a recent agile/scrum training we received from Platinum Edge we decided as a tech team to work on putting together some well-defined coding standards.  As an exercise during part of the training we were tasked with making a list of coding standards.  Our CIO/VP of Tech gathered the results of this exercise and then emailed the list of coding standards to everyone on the team asking for feedback. The list of standards...
The term seems to be a relatively obscure one.  Even among fellow geeks and coworkers I seem to get a blank look when I refer to "yak shaving".  I'll tell you a little story about my day today: I arrived at work this morning and found that some functionality on our internal CMS was timing out.  I immediately knew it must have resulted from changes to our codebase that I wrote and pushed live yesterday.  I recalled that with...
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