Archive for November, 2007

Know Your Nomenclature

November 25th, 2007 Posted in Software Engineering | Comments »

It’s very hard to discuss software engineering topics with respect to a given language when there’s some confusion between “function overloading” and “function overriding.”

Refactoring Could’ve Saved the Day

November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Refactoring, Software Engineering | Comments »

I have ran into a few snags while trying to update parts of my code that depended on other peoples’ code. Other people updated the interface of their modules, and I needed to update the way my module interacted with theirs. Being slightly optimistic and feeling a bit of schedule pressure, a simple identifier substitution […]