Software Development
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Can MapReduce solve planning problems?
To solve a planning or optimization problem, some solvers tend to scale out poorly: As the problem has more variables…
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The 10 Commandments of Programming
Patterns 34:29 As Turing descended from Mount Compute – with the two iPads of the testimony in his hands as…
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Please, Run That Calculation in Your RDBMS
There’s one thing that you can do terribly wrong when working with RDBMS. And that thing is not running your…
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Atom, Hackable Text Editor By GitHub
GitHub has recently announced its new text editor – Atom. It claimed it would be a 21st century text editor…
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The Test Waste Ratio
Remember the days when bugs were just part of life? I mean a big part. If you recall those dark…
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Are comments always wrong?
A colleague asked me recently: Why aren’t developers writing comments any more? He’d been looking through some code his team…
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Logging or debugging
Debugging is lame. You should debug log. If your code is structured you do not need debug logging. These are…
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IDE vs. Editor
Are you using an IDE, or an editor? Are you a “hardcore” programmer, or you are one of those sissy…
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How to Eliminate Bugs Through High Cohesion
Intuition tells us that methods like these ones suffer from a distinct code smell: …
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