In this Google Clean Code talk, Miško Hevery presents the evils of global state, how this relates to Singletons, testing and what to do about it.
Questions starting at 31:20 are pretty interesting.
Python has had support for SQLite built-in since version 2.5.
This is a very convenient pairing as SQLite is an excellent lightweight SQL implementation that I find very useful for a variety of tasks e.g. data mining. Or any task involving manipulating complex data sets where I’d otherwise end up resorting to using a full blown [...]
The more experienced I become the more aware I become of what I don’t know and the more I come to terms with the fact that I make mistakes.
The awareness of what I don’t know helps keep me humble, humility makes working as part of a team easier: as there is no pressure to have [...]
I encountered some truly hideous source code today in a programming language in which I wouldn’t have thought hideous obscure code was possible: C#. It was my first real experience of abject horror when looking at the source code of a C# application. Obviously with hindsight it would seem that you can write hugely, dense, [...]
A very common trap to fall into while implementing a new system or feature is to add functionality to ‘future proof’ your code for a use case that you imagine in may be required in the future. The future for the purposes of this post is any time that is not in your current development [...]