Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

If you happen to be a psychic: Quote of the Week

Just started reading Refactoring to Patterns.  Starts off with a good reminder that YAGNI.

When you make your code more flexible or sophisticated than it needs to be, you over-engineer it.  Some programmers do this because they believe they know their system’s future requirements.  They reason that it’s best to make a design more flexible or sophisticated today, so it can accommodate the needs of tomorrow.  That sounds reasonable – if you happen to be psychic.

Joshua Kerievsky, Refactoring to Patterns p.1

Look at the code you’ve written recently.  Were you pretending you’re a psychic?

Friday, February 19, 2010

Recommended Reading

I’ve been wanting to put together a recommended reading list for some time now, so I guess I’m going to not let “best” be the enemy of “better” and just do it.  I have added a small link to it below the “about me” side bar (which I will work on making more prominent soon… need to clean up the sidebars at some point).

Or you can use this link to view my recommended reading list.   None should be a terrible surprise if you’ve read any of my posts.  I’ll go back and elaborate on them more in the future (give my reasons and analysis) as well as expand (and possibly contract) the list.  Enjoy!

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