The Art of Readable Code Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2012 When I saw this book, it seemed like a great idea. I’ve spent my entire career with legacy codebases, trying to make them better. A book that covers ways to make code more readable, and therefore, more maintainable is a wonderful… Read More »
Yesterday, I wrote an essay on a comment made in Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horrors blog about regular expressions. While Atwood spends quite a bit of time on the two problems joke and talks passionately about regexes as a tool, he does take a swipe at the Perl programming language that seemed somewhat uncalled for. I… Read More »
In the past year, I’ve had to move my Java programming skills from recognize the language at twenty paces to professional Java programmer. In the process, I’ve been reading a number of books on the language. This has been my approach to learning every language I’ve ever worked with. Almost all of the Java books… Read More »
Someone asked a question about updating SVG dynamically from a server on the SVG Developers list this morning. One of the (many) responses pointed to an article on SVG server-side. As usual, I went to check it out to see if it might hold some tidbits I could use. Or maybe, it could be a… Read More »