Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. — Richard Cook, read on FSM
Category: Software Development
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[…] as we all know, premature optimization is the root of all evil. — from a cocoa-dev email amen!
Single instance per session application with argument passing
Suppose you want to create an application which you want to limit to a single running instance, like some image viewers do for example. Also, you need different users on a Terminal Server not to conflict with each other. Oh, and you’re coding in C#. A possible solution to the problem is the one described …
How much would it cost to rewrite it?
I’ve just added LogMiner to Ohloh, a site that offers an interesting feature: it can analyse a project source code and estimate how much it would cost to hire a development team to recreate the project from scratch. I think that it’s a simple way to estimate the effort you put over the time in …
If at first you don’t succeed… try, try again…
Here’s another interesting piece of code I’ve just dug up in a C# application I’m reviewing. If you can come up with a bright idea about what those try/catch blocks are supposed to do, you’ve got more imagination than me… 😉 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930class Foo { private int bar; // ...snip... …