When was the last time you updated your blog? Have you done anything lately that was worth blogging about? These are all questions that have been rattling around my head recently. I’ve experienced it myself, I’ve seen it via my colleagues. When people are working on interesting stuff, focused on solving clearly defined business goals, their blogs are full of detail and insightful to read! If the business is losing or has lost direction, blogs . . .
I’ve just spent a useful and enjoyable day finally getting around to reading Clean Code, definitely a book to come back to time and again for reference, etc. However, given the subject matter, the book contains I was amazed to find in the section about “magic numbers” a statement that “some constants are so easy to recognise that they don’t always need a named constant”. Two of the examples given are the number of feet per . . .