Sunday, 27 November 2005

Keep DRY

I hate "copy and paste" operation when I code. Today I found out what the official name of avoiding this activity is. DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself.

Wednesday, 23 November 2005

The more questions you ask during interview the better job you get !!!

I do not agree with every single sentnece but I like in general Joel's point of view. If you want to hire me then especially pay attention to "Four Ways To Use The Joel Test" section ;);

Friday, 11 November 2005

Do not fix every single bug - that's true!!!

Surprisingly, it’s really true. We don’t live in perfect world and software isn’t going to be prefect. Obviously we don’t like war, poverty etc. but anyway our world seems to work and the same rule should be applied to our software because in fact it’s part of our world. More about this topic you can find on the website of very clever guy whose name is Eric Sink

Friday, 4 November 2005

IE embedded in Firefox

If you are big fan of Firefox then this extension is a must :) https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1419

Tuesday, 27 September 2005

Coding like writing a book

If you write better code then it's just easier to read it.
Just have a look at below examples and you will know what I am talking about.

Code Sentence that appears in my mind


public int GetTotalCost(DataTable products)
{
int totalCost = 0;
foreach (DataRow product in products.Rows)
{
totalCost += (int)product["Price"];
}
return totalCost;
}




For each product that is in products
get its price and add it to the total cost.


public int GetTC(DataTable dt)
{
int tc = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < dt.Rows.Count; i++)
{
tc += (int)dt.Rows[i]["Price"];
}
return tc;
}




For each i in range from 0 to dt.Rows.Count – 1 get ith
element of dt.Rows and get its price. Then add the price to tc.

Using OR mapping tools we can even replace DataTable with ProductCollection and DataRow with Product.