APPropriate Behaviour
The book about all the things software writers do that aren't writing software.
FSF
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Let’s talk about self-documenting code
You think your code is self-documenting. That it doesn’t need comments or Doxygen or little diagrams, because it’s clear from the code what it does. I do not think that that is true. Even if your reader has at least … Continue reading
Rethinking Object-Oriented Design figures
My iPad-drawn graphics in Rethinking OOD at App Builders 2018 were not very good, so here are the ink-and-paper versions. Please have them to hand when viewing the talk (which is the first of a two-parter, though I haven’t pitched … Continue reading
Posted in OOP, Talk
Leave a comment
Inheritance still doesn’t make any sense
Some ideas based on feedback to the Why inheritance never made any sense: Feedback: Subtypes are necessary The only one of these that is practically workable is behaviour inheritance <=> subtype inheritance: I’m sorry that you were exposed to Java … Continue reading
Posted in OOP
Leave a comment
Subatomic Chocolate
This started out as a toot thread, but “threaded tooting is tedious for everybody involved” so here’s the single post that thread should have been. The “Electron vs. native” debate doesn’t make much sense. I feel like I’ve been here … Continue reading
Posted in UI
Leave a comment
What’s better than semver?
Many software libraries are released with version “numbers” that follow a scheme called Semantic Versioning. A semantic version is three numbers separated by dots, of the form x.y.z, where: if x is zero, all bets are off. Otherwise; z increments … Continue reading
Posted in software-engineering
4 Comments
What Lenin taught me about software movements
In What is to be done?: Burning Questions of our Movement, Lenin lists four roles who contribute to fomenting revolution – the theoreticians, the propagandists, the agitators, and the organisers: The theoreticians write research works on tariff policy, with the … Continue reading
Posted in whatevs
Leave a comment
