Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Let’s Do a Code Review With SlickEdit Tools (Part 2)
This article continues Part 1 of the series, where we began the code review process by demonstrating some ways to find the best candidate files to review. We then introduced some techniques to identify what code a specific developer had written, using some of the features in the Versioning Toolbox. The next task is to [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Connecting With the End User
Coding is as much of an art as writing literature. It’s a forgotten sentiment in programming these days. It’s easy to get lost in the sea of API’s, libraries, frameworks, and everything that’s out there that must be understood before you can start to program effectively. But many programmers see this as the end. Once [...]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The Disappointing Lack of Similarity Between Opposites, or The Ballad of Next and Prev
In writing software, there are a few words you see in your symbol names more than any others: First, Last Next, Previous Begin, End Push, Pop Draw, Erase Add, Remove High, Low Yes, No Stop, Go OK, Cancel And, Or Up, Down Left, Right True, False In, Out Plus, Minus Fixed, Floating Open, Close Each [...]
