Programming Sucks
The Science of Computing: Shaping a Discipline,
Adam Barr • The Problem With Software: Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code (The MIT Press)
I think these are symptoms of chronic, pervasive problems with the way we develop and interact with software. Messing up my formatting upon copy-and-paste is a data-corruption bug, but we don’t think of it this way. Imagine if every time you copied something, half the letters would just come out randomly scrambled.
Feifan Zhou • No One Cares About Software Quality
Michael Feathers asks what we think about when we hear the term “legacy code”: If you are at all like me, you think of tangled, unintelligible structure, code that you have to change but don’t really understand. You think of sleepless nights trying to add in features that should be easy to add, and you think of demoralization, the sense that everyo
... See moreDavid Scott Bernstein • Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software
Do you find yourself drowning in another Wordpress error that you’ve tried to Google the answer for 3 hours?