I liked Network World’s 12 words you can never say in the office, though I have to admit I have no idea what an RBOC is. I’m glad ASP is put to rest. It used to be so embarrassing when I’d say I was using ASP (predecessor to ASP.Net) and someone would ask ” you mean like application hosting?”.
August 25, 2009
June 2, 2009
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Obscure film references
Use constant names like LancelotsFavouriteColour instead of blue and assign it hex value of $0204FB. The color looks identical to pure blue on the screen, and a maintenance programmer would have to work out 0204FB (or use some graphic tool) to know what it looks like. Only someone intimately familiar with Monty Python and the Holy Grail would know that Lancelot’s favorite color was blue. If a maintenance programmer can’t quote entire Monty Python movies from memory, he or she has no business being a programmer.
http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html?repost=forPosterity
