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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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, … Read more

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 … Read more