When I’m programming, I usually anthroporporphize the code and the actors involved, and that means when I’m thinking about program flow, I think of it as if they’re real actors doing the tasks needed, and then I convert that back into code. But, when reading other people’s code, I often times find it hard to [...]
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The video linked below sort of blew my mind. The integration and instant feedback between test & code The notion of “spec” (not “unittest”) The spliraling nature of the way he writes the code. Here’s the blog post with the embedded video, but the embedding size is too small to see what’s going on. Here’s [...]
Continue Reading →I’m tired of articles like this one that say things like XML essentially is a programming language that allows users to customize the underlying format of their word-processing documents It peeves me a lot when people refer to things like XML and HTML as “programming languages” because there’s no actual programming (i.e. control flow of [...]
Continue Reading →I always forget how to do this, so I’m writing it down: perl -pi -e “s/foo/bar/g” Is there a way to do this in Python and be as concise? That would be really nice, and would eliminate one more place where I end up using Perl and tearing my hair out every time.
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