Self-Documenting is Self-Reinforcing

I just discovered James Shore’s blog. Lots of interesting stuff around agile development. In particular, his post, “Down With Comments”. It refers to a recent slashdot article on comments in code: Comments are More Important than Code. As a guy...

XP Explained: Changes in 2nd Edition?

The 2nd edition of Extreme Programming Explained has been out for a little while now and Darrell Norton has been covering it in a three-part series. What I want to know is, what’s changed since the first edition? It would...

Fancy Input in IDEs

There’s been a lot of talk about viewing code in fancy ways. For instance, James Gosling’s work on Jackpot.

A Dubious Honour: “goo….oogle Runner-Up

This post on Google Suggest has rocketed me into 2nd place for searches on “gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle”. And a respectable six - that’s 6 short of a dozen! - people or robots have visited softwareas on that basis (thus triggering this investigation)....