Tag: debugging rss

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16 February 2013 /
A few days ago I posted about mitigating complex code issues and introduced my opinion that commenting should be viewed as a last resort.That post kicked up some discussion on Facebook with some of my friends:“Documentation and commenting is still important”-Close friend from college“I think it can be important, but I would much rather see time invested in writing better code and hiring more talented developers."-Former co-worker in response to above commentOf course I never meant to imply that code commenting isn’t important.
30 January 2013 /
Lately I’ve been thinking about my current general philosophy on how to approach the code I work on each day…When I’ve solved a hard problem (or have a design for a solution in mind), I ask myself the following questions:1) Would a slightly more junior developer understand the code I just wrote? …See the genius behind the design I just implemented? …Understand why I wrote it the way I did?2) If (or rather when) there is a bug with the code, would a slightly more junior developer understand how to debug this code?