Working Through the “OO’s Small Classes and Short Methods” Exercise

In "Perfecting OO’s Small Classes and Short Methods ", Andrew Binstock describes the constraints of an Object Oriented exercise by Jeff Bay.
I may be three weeks late on the issue, but I had to wait to find the time to write a project using these restrictions. After all, one experiment is worth a thousand blog [...]

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Lessons from `Saving’ Software Development

My post “How Reddit Will (Maybe) Save Software Development” went through a few iterations. It started as a condemnation of crappy computer books (lack of rigor). It then transformed into an encouragement of rigor in design and coding, and went through minor revisions.
I then started thinking about “internalizing the externality,” and either penalizing bad work, [...]

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How Reddit Will (Maybe) Save Software Development

Or, This Started as a Diatribe About Bad Programming Books, and Turned Into Beating a Dead Horse.
Decades after The Mythical Man Month examined the management of software development, projects are still failing at an alarming rate. Some estimates say that as few as 34% of software engineering undertakings are successful. Not only that, [...]

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