Archive for February, 2009

Messed up Browser Shot

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

I booted up an old Mac, running OS 9 and wanted to check to make sure that it was networked properly. So I ran Netscape and Apple’s web site came up by default. The page didn’t render properly. I guess Apple doesn’t support OS 9 anymore. :)

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Seven Pillars of Pretty Code

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

I saw a reference to this article in Beautiful Code:

http://www.perforce.com/perforce/papers/prettycode.html

Line Width

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

This week’s issue of Code Project included a poll question. The question was: “Do you limit the width of your source code? 76 columns? 100 columns? Anything and let word wrap deal with it? How do you swing?” The results were:

Yes, so that it can be printed easily, 6.09%
Yes, so it fits on my screen, 48.59%
Sometimes yes, sometimes no, 28.04%
No, 17.28%

I was surprised that the list of possible answers didn’t include anything about readability. Code readability is a big issue and long lines are harder to read, whether it be in a novel or in code. Code should be formatted so that it can be read!