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Today, I caught myself doing this: bool f() { bool r; if( x == y ) { r = true; } else { r = false; } return r; } When I really should have written: bool f() { return x == y; } In the actual code I that I was writing, x and […]

Everyday is an opportunity to learn something new. Today, I learned how to set the tab width for vi (set tabstop=2) while trying to format the picture for this blog entry, for example. Daily learning is a form of personal refinement. Accumulated knowledge allows people to do things better. If the lesson relates to development, […]

I just finished rereading Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. As a little experiment, I will explore how far I can get with the book’s fundamental design patterns with Python, an object-oriented scripting language that I am trying to pick up. One of the first design patterns I came across even before reading DP […]