Monthly Archives: January 2014

Set the settings set

Posted on 2014-01-29 by Graham

The worst method naming convention Object-Oriented programming is set{Thing}(). And no, C# doesn’t escape my ire for calling it Set{Thing}(), nor does Smalltalk for calling it {thing}:, though that does handily demonstrate how meaningless set is. OK, so set isn’t … Continue reading →

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Meaningless Vapid Catchphrase

Posted on 2014-01-21 by Graham

On the 4th December 2013, I said: Urge to search the archives for papers on Model-View-Controller and write an essay on its ever-changing meaning in programmer discourse. Do you have any idea how much work that is? I do, now. … Continue reading →

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The First Flaw

Posted on 2014-01-20 by Graham

As she left her desk at the grandiosely-named United States Robotics, Susan reflected on her relationship with the engineering team she was about to meet. Many of its members were juvenile and frivolous in her opinion, and she refused to … Continue reading →

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It’s about solving problems

Posted on 2014-01-19 by Graham

As ever, there’s a touchstone issue on the programmers’ corner of the intarwebs (the programmers’ corner is actually the same intarwebs everyone else is using, just we model it with geometry so it can have a corner). Here it is: … Continue reading →

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Programming as a societal roadblock

Posted on 2014-01-05 by Graham

Introduction People who make software are instigators of and obstacles to social interactions. We are secondarily technologists, in that we apply technology to enable and block these transactions. This article explores the results. Programmers as arbiters of death I would … Continue reading →

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ClassBrowser: warts and all

Posted on 2014-01-02 by Graham

I previously gave a sneak peak of ClassBrowser, a dynamic execution environment for Objective-C. It’s not anything like ready for general use (in fact it can’t really do ObjC very well at all), but it’s at the point where you … Continue reading →

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