Children are a lot like software, you quite like your own but don’t have the patients for other people’s, but that’s not the comparison we should...

9 steps to better software design today by Jeff Bay We’ve all seen poorly written code that’s hard to understand, test, and maintain. Object-oriented programming promised...

Part III Don’t “Forget” About Memory All memory storage requires management. That management takes the form of allocation and deallocation of memory, tracking and optimising those...

Legacy code can mean different things to different people. I know not everyone shares my definition of legacy code. However, the one common thing, regardless of...

So far, in this series, we have looked at how data is represented in binary, this included integer and boolean types, in Part I and then...

In defining Professionalism in terms of integrity and success we could do a lot worse than to start with an Ernest Hemingway quote! There is nothing...

If you missed part one then you can catch up here Two’s a Complement? Signed integers, the first order of business, if you recall we covered...

Though not essential an understanding of the underlying computer concepts and principles is useful. This may not seem directly relevant to modern programming in the beginning,...

Understanding how code becomes coupled goes a long way towards identifying how to decouple it. Direct coupling, the obvious type, only accounts for the tip of...