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I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, and telemark skier

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Posts Tagged programming

Five Rules for Writing Good Code

1. Write for an audience
Code tends to outlive jobs. When we create code, we are not writing for ourselves, but for an audience of peers and progeny that will look upon it and have to maintain it. Do we want them to do so with awe and respect, or with fear and disgust? Writing maintainable [...]


The next high level language

When we used low level languages like assembly, we had to care about how the computer performed every step of our operations. With the advent of mid level languages like C, we no longer cared about registers, but we still had to know how memory was managed. With the higher level languages (Java, Ruby, Smalltalk, [...]