Monthly Archives: August 2007

Refactoring with style

I’ve been using Check­styles lately to enforce my Java code style. I choose check­styles over the sim­i­lar tools based on the Eclipse plug-in. I think that the eclipse plug-in is a great tool. It is easy to setup and doesn’t intrude on other activ­i­ties. I was able to mod­ify the defaults to match my cod­ing …

August 13, 2007 – 9:12 pm | By j | Posted in MainMenu | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Incremental Improvements in Code

I think this post about “Beau­ti­ful code in the Real World” is really good. I can’t wait for the next install­ment. It is lit­tle over­whelm­ing to look at undoc­u­mented, non-tested code and think about all the “best prac­tices” being ignor­ing. At first I got stressed out every-time I thought of all the time it would …

August 9, 2007 – 9:34 pm | By j | Posted in MainMenu | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Programming Perspective

Recently, some­thing clicked that changed my per­spec­tive on being a pro­gram­mer. It was more an under­stand­ing of where I want to go than any­thing actu­ally hap­pen­ing. I’ve always been good at pro­gram­ming. I put a lot of my effort into learn­ing the flashy newest and lat­est, but not the non-sexy fun­da­men­tals. So, I grabbed some …

August 7, 2007 – 9:14 pm | By j | Posted in MainMenu | Tagged , , | Comments (0)