Tag Archives: best practices

Aphorism Driven Development (ADD)

Over the years I have noticed a habit among some developers that I’ve come to call Aphorism Driven Development. Many best practices are taught and remembered through the use pithy statements. Although these statements are easy to remember, they can’t capture the full context and connotations of the practice in question. If someone never learns… Read More »

BPGP: How Best Practices Go Bad

There are a few reasons that Best Practices get specified in a profession. Provide standards for judging proposed solutions. Provide cover for unforeseen circumstances. Provide a starting point for discussions to improve the state of the art even more. Help more junior people make better decisions before they fully understand the field. Applied to software,… Read More »

Review of Perl Best Practices

Perl Best Practices Damian Conway O’Reilly, 2005 This book is hard to summarize. There is much good advice in this book. Unfortunately, there’s also some advice that I found questionable. Conway covers some of important Perl programming and general programming best practices, including consistent formatting, use of strict and warnings, and the use of version… Read More »