In your search for achieving excellence in creating software you might have come across one of these statements that ‘code is an art’ or something in that fashion. Although these statements are very appealing, I believe it not to be true. I will explain why. First let’s start with the reasons why a computer programmer (or coder) is considered an artist and it’s product (code) art. Writing code is labour intensive and various attempts have been made to automise the coding process through the use of high-level visual languages or application-generator tools.
One of the most overlooked aspects in any software project is the end-user (e.u.) documentation. Can you recall how many (web)applications you have encountered that had proper e.u. documentation in it? I for one cannot, even though the (web)applications are getting more sophisticated and more complex every day. And to be honest, the software projects I create often lack proper documentation as well. So why is this the case? There are a number of reasons that I can think of:
Ah, so finally Microsoft has also taken the road towards the Model-View- Controller pattern. Scott Guthrie talks about it in his weblog. It was a matter of time ofcourse after the self- proclaimed success of Ruby-On-Rails and the popularity of unit testing. One of the most important motivations that Scott mentions in his articles are ‘seperation of concerns’ and ‘designed for testability’. Let’s take a look at these two: Seperation of concerns.
Ik zat vanmiddag naar het laatste album van Coparck (aanrader) te luisteren tot het nummer Consider this goodbye voorbijkwam. Ze openen het nummer met de tekst ‘there are more stars than grains of sand on this planet’. Interessant.. dus direct even opgezocht of dit eigenlijk wel klopt :) En ze hebben gelijk. Het blijft natuurlijk erg natte vingerwerk, maar toch als ik dit antwoord zie en nog vele andere pagina’s op het internet zijn er toch minstens evenveel, en waarschijnlijk _veel meer _sterren (10^22) in het universum dan zandkorrels (10^20).
A small wave has hit the developer community this weekend about a clash between two lead developers: Chris Wilson of Microsoft’s IE team and and Brendan Eich of the Mozilla foundation. The dispute is about the acceptance of ECMAScript 4; the proposed successor of Javascript. Wilson wrote public doubts about this standard, which let Eich to write a public letter in which Microsoft is being blamed for being reluctant and passive in the development of ECMA4.
