September 2011
2 posts
1 tag
Forcing functions that are better than comments
A recent thread at work discussed the value (or otherwise) of comments in code. I think comments on anything owned and used by a small team are usually a code smell.
One of the excuses offered for comments was that if you wrote e.g. JavaDoc for some code, then that forces you to think about the details of the code’s behavior and the way that it presents itself to clients; and that such...
Google Plus minus writes
Google+ finally began to roll-out an API. Yay! But, it is read-only. Boo!
I write my stuff here, in a space (i.e. under a domain name) that I own.
Some people have chosen to follow me on Google+ and from this I conclude they may want to read what I write. The obvious way to link the resources is to post a link on Google+ each time that I write something here. I was hoping for a Google+ API that...