Monday, February 28, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Schauderhaft » Don’t rewrite Your Application
Schauderhaft » Don’t rewrite Your Application
"When stuck with a legacy code base you’ll hear the claim “We’ll have to rewrite this from scratch in order to fix it!” It sounds promising. You start with a clean slate. You can do all the good stuff without all the mistakes. The only problem: It doesn’t work. Here is why.
- What every you might think of the code base and the developers that created it: They weren’t stupid nor evil. So chances are the results of your work will look just as ugly in two years from now.
- You don’t know the requirements: Part of the reason legacy code bases are ugly is that requirements change. There is no reason for you to assume this won’t stop.So chances are the results of your work will look just as ugly in two years from now.
- You don’t have the time: As long as the rewrite isn’t done, you’ll need to maintain and probably evolve the current application. If it is of any importance, you can’t ignore it for the months to come. If you can you should do so without wasting your time with a rewrite.
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oy! this smart fellow hit the ole' nail the head! right as rain he is -
Friday, February 18, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Onur Gumus's Blog: Wikipedia guy deletes programming articles.
Onur Gumus's Blog: Wikipedia guy deletes programming articles.
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Wikipedia guy deletes programming articles.
Recently one of my friends notified me that the article for the programming language Nemerle has been deleted from Wikipedia. And I am very upset about it . This language is still very active and widely used in russian communities and I myself is one of the developers. I also have production projects with it. Here you can read the discussion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nemerle
It seems this Monsanto guy http://monsan.to/ is one of the power abusers, and despite all the discussion he has deleted it with no solid reason. Shame on him, shame on wikipedia for this action.
I always thought wikipedia is one of the most neutral (at least trying to be ) places to gather info but this sensorship , this irresponsiblity or what ever you call is totally unacceptable. You can tell me it is a non notable language so has no right to exist in wikipedia. We could debate about it. But the lanaguage has 8 years of constant effort of developers, how would you feel if your baby is treated like this ?
Here you can see all the checkin history of nemerle:
http://code.google.com/p/nemerle/source/list
and this Monsanto guy just deletes it shame on him!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nemerle
It seems this Monsanto guy http://monsan.to/ is one of the power abusers, and despite all the discussion he has deleted it with no solid reason. Shame on him, shame on wikipedia for this action.
I always thought wikipedia is one of the most neutral (at least trying to be ) places to gather info but this sensorship , this irresponsiblity or what ever you call is totally unacceptable. You can tell me it is a non notable language so has no right to exist in wikipedia. We could debate about it. But the lanaguage has 8 years of constant effort of developers, how would you feel if your baby is treated like this ?
Here you can see all the checkin history of nemerle:
http://code.google.com/p/nemerle/source/list
and this Monsanto guy just deletes it shame on him!
wtf!? this is absolutely absurd! hopefully this gets overturned...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
stexbar - Project Hosting on Google Code
stexbar - Project Hosting on Google Code
Right up there with DittoPad and FileBox Extender ... this app is awesome!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
That One Developer Blog: Error connecting to undo manager of source file "whatever control/page.designer.cs"
That One Developer Blog: Error connecting to undo manager of source file "whatever control/page.designer.cs"
Concise solution to a nagging problem of mine - cheers to "That One Guy" on "That One Developer Blog"
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Download details: ILMerge
Download details: ILMerge: "ILMerge is a utility for merging multiple .NET assemblies into a single .NET assembly. It works on executables and DLLs alike and comes with several options for controlling the processing and format of the output. See the accompanying documentation for details."
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