When I define interfaces to the functions that I implement, I try to be explicit about the variables that the functions will examine and modify. From time to time, a global variable is necessary, and I typically employ intermediary functions for accessing such a variable. Avoiding the direct use of global variables within functions is […]
After delving into Ruby and Rails, I have felt the following but never got around to writing about it. I have since abandoned the adoption of Rails, but I recently stumbled upon a newsgroup post that expresses what I think about the framework (but with examples that I would not have produced without more experience): […]
Either it has been a really slow news week, or I’ve gotten faster at processing news from multiple news aggregators. I’ve been getting to the office early in the morning, and the content of /. and other popular news sites just did not give me my fill of reading for the morning. I began wondering […]
The year is almost over, and I’ve been searching through the usual office supply stores for a type of calendar. I saw a vertical year planner, similar to this during my last trip to Germany. I thought that something like this could be found easily at my local store, but neither officedepot.com nor staples.com seem […]
Lately, I have been working as a lead developer on a software module for a reasonably sized project. What seemed to be a task that appeared to require no more than three weeks has turned into something that has spanned four months and may include an additional two months for the provision of integration support. […]