sturner (11/17/2011)

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majorbloodnock (11/17/2011)

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That doesn't necessarily excuse the cludge, but it may not be the person who put it in who is ultimately at fault, and I refuse to damn...

sturner (11/16/2011)

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I despise poorly written code and the reasons are many:

* usually consumes (wastes) precious resources (memory, CPU, I/O)

* exhibits poor concurrency

* poor scalability

* poor documentation

The typical argument I hear...

Let's not forget that Phil has deliberately taken an uncompromising stance to write an editorial that will get us all discussing. He has certainly succeeded.

To clarify my stance, I first...

GSquared (11/14/2011)

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majorbloodnock (11/14/2011)

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GSquared (11/14/2011)

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majorbloodnock (11/14/2011)

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Arguably, though, the quality of the code doesn't matter; it either fulfills its business requirement or it doesn't. If you need to justify downtime to rewrite...

GSquared (11/14/2011)

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majorbloodnock (11/14/2011)

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Arguably, though, the quality of the code doesn't matter; it either fulfills its business requirement or it doesn't. If you need to justify downtime to rewrite portions, then...

Arguably, though, the quality of the code doesn't matter; it either fulfills its business requirement or it doesn't. If you need to justify downtime to rewrite portions, then why not...

I have a rule of thumb that has never let me down. Praise in public, criticise in private and make the apology as public as the sin that prompted it.

Phil...

I think that justifies us coining the phrase "code magpie"

tsceurman (9/29/2011)

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majorbloodnock (9/29/2011)

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For the record, though, the drawers in my pedestal contain the following unexpected items: