In the last article I introduced the highly recommendable book ”Clean Code“ written by Robert C. Martin. While I tried to essentially describe what the book is about and what’s so great about it, I would like to comment on some of his so-called ”code smells“. I do not want to challenge the quality of [...]
September 21st, 2010 | General, Programming | agile methods, book, code, software development | No Comments
As a software developer you are facing many different tasks you have to deal with. Requirements have to be gathered, architectures created, algorithms selected or designed, tests specified, changes considered and finally (and not to an insignificant part) code created and modified. Like in the other areas of software development, one question arises also in [...]
September 19th, 2010 | General, Programming | agile methods, book, code, software development | No Comments
When I just wanted to install the shared network printer on my wife’s new MacBook Pro, I was pretty much at a loss. The printer just didn’t want to show up in the list of available printers, even though I can see and use it without any problems from my laptop (also a MacBook Pro). [...]
September 17th, 2010 | General | CUPS, printing, mac os x, network, ubuntu | No Comments
