Posted in other, programming, tagged Bazaar, Cathedral, Eric Steven Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some ideas from The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Eric Steven Raymond
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
“Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.” (Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, Chapter 11)
If you have the right attitude, [...]
Posted in other, programming, tagged principles, software development on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“First make it work, then make it fast” – That’s my motto.
In many examples from this blog, I’ll use simple, even dummy, code.
That’s because I need to see something working.
Then, I’ll improve the code, to make it fast.
But always use interfaces when you need, especially when you know that the first implementation will be very [...]
Posted in other, programming, tagged Bill Pugh, design patterns, singleton pattern on March 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Let’s pause developing our simple serial focused web crawler and discuss about the singleton pattern. You will find this post very useful for our little crawler.
So, if you haven’t heard about design patterns, I recommend you to read a little on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_pattern_(computer_science).
The singleton pattern (more on Wikipedia) is a very simple and useful pattern.
There are [...]
Posted in other, programming, tagged design principles, object oriented, OOSurvey, programming on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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